Hilarious if it weren't so true: From today Tavis Smiley show on npr.org, courtesy of Connie Rice (no, NOT Condy Rice):
"Top 10 Signs You Might Not Get a Fair Trial at Gitmo"
The U.S. military admitted for the first time last week that one of the prisoners held without charges for more than two years at the base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was never an al Qaeda or Taliban fighter and should be immediately released. The prisoner was ordered to be set free by the military's new "combatant status review tribunal" which is meant to provide a fair hearing for detainees.
But commentator Connie Rice has been monitoring the tribunal, and she's come up with another of her Top 10 lists -- this time: Top 10 Signs You Might Not Get a Fair Trial in Guantanamo.
(10.) Your lawyer's boss is the prosecutor.
"Your lawyer's next promotion will be decided by the man trying to get you executed -- this would be like Marcia Clarke being Johnnie Cochran's boss," Rice says. "So much for zealous representation and the right to counsel."
More transcript and link under the fold...
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