White House Watch: Bush's Idea of Swift Justice
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, August 7, 2008; 11:51 AM
"'We're pleased that Salim Hamdan received a fair trial,' White House spokesman Tony Fratto said. 'The military commission system is a fair and appropriate legal process for prosecuting detainees.' . . .
"Ben Wizner, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union who attended the trial as one of several human rights observers, ridiculed the administration for inaugurating the military system on 'a marginal figure.' . . .
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