I wasn't sure if this topic had already been diaried today, but a search of DKos only revealed several peripheral comments about Canadian "enemy combatant" Omar Khadr.
Anyway, a Reuters report, with the eye-catching title Buried evidence revealed in Guantanamo trial today discusses recent developments in the U.S. government's case against him.
I will leave to others the dissection of the U.S.'s multiple manipulations to try to pin something on this young man. Follow after the jump for a quote that caught my eye...
After Navy Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Khadr's military lawyer, sought to challenge the impartiality of military judge Army Col. Peter Brownback, who expressed public opinions that Kuebler thought were prejudicial, Jane Sutton from Reuters writes that
Brownback ruled himself fit to try the case impartially.
I'm not sure whether that line is more worthy of George Orwell or Lewis Carroll--it takes the logic of fairness, the level scales of justice, and the rule of law and ties it all up in pretzel knots.