Six Detainees Soon May Face Military Trials
New York Times: Politics: "President Bush set in motion the process that officials say will soon lead to the first use of military tribunals by the U.S. in more than 50 years."
The credibility of the Administration's claim that military tribunals are appropriate in these cases is perhaps best judged by the credibility of its claim that the war in Iraq was fought because Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction -- which have yet to be found. Any such subversion of the judiciary as use of military tribunals should be subjected to vigorous skepticism.