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Saturday, July 05, 2003

Checks and Balances?

The London Times has a short article discussing lawyers' objections to the recent US plans for trying Al-Queda suspects in a military trial at Guantanamo Bay. At the bottom of the article was a very interesting exchange:
Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, has delegated to his deputy, the hawkish Paul Wolfowitz, the final decision on whether the prosecutions will proceed.

“There are a lot of checks and balances in this system,” one Pentagon spokesman told The Times. Asked what those checks and balances were, the official cited the review of the President’s decision by Mr Wolfowitz.

Asked if there were any other checks and balances other than that, the official replied: “No, sir.”

posted by chris at 2:59 PM
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