Yoo, Latif, and the Rise of Secret Justice

[sad sally]

3. The Guantanamo trials have similarities that should chill the hearts of all Americans who claim to

believe in justice.

Just over a decade ago, who would have believed that evidence obtained by days and days - maybe even months - of torture would be admissible in a US-run courtroom proceedings? This is a huge departure from American due process and justice as we thought we knew it.

Our President, who as a senator spoke out opposing this, now sells it to us as acceptable and necessary. When the government and the leaders deny what the constitution and history have held as due process and establish new judicial rules of their own making that have never used before, the country will forever be changed, and not necessarily in a good way.