{"id":711761,"date":"2010-04-08T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81626"},"modified":"2010-04-08T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:59:36","slug":"chief-gtmo-prosecutor-sees-%e2%80%98very-little-difference%e2%80%99-with-how-courts-handle-classified-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/711761","title":{"rendered":"Chief GTMO Prosecutor Sees \u2018Very Little Difference\u2019 With How Courts Handle Classified Info"},"content":{"rendered":"

It faded from news coverage over the past few weeks, but when President Obama returns from Prague<\/a>, he’ll have to make a decision 0n pressing forward to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in federal court, as his attorney general desires,\u00a0or whether to move him into a military commission, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) urges. The major rationale Graham has cited for the need to get the 9\/11 architect out of criminal court is the courts’ inability to handle classified information<\/a>. But now the chief prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay refutes that argument.<\/span><\/p>\n

Adam Serwer of the American Prospect is at Guantanamo Bay to observe a commission, and he reports on a briefing he received about their procedure<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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But in a conference call with reporters a few minutes ago, the chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions, Cpt.\u00a0John F. Murphy<\/strong>, said that there was little difference “as a practical matter” between dealing with classified information under CIPA and the new process outlined by the revised military commissions law.<\/p>\n

“The new changes to our 505 bring it more into conformity with CIPA — it is closer to the CIPA process in federal court,” Captain Murphy said. “I would need to lay the two statues side-by-side to point out the differences.”<\/p>\n

“As a practical matter, there’s very little difference between the two,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The only practical difference Adam can ascertain concerns a slight delay on the closed-circuit TV feed from the trials into the observation room. On such differences hinge, substantively, the political opposition to trying a terrorist in a venue with nearly 400 terrorism-related convictions as opposed to a venue with three<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Eric Holder will next get a chance to press his case publicly on Wednesday, when he testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and then on Thursday, when he speaks to the Constitution Project’s annual dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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