NECESSARY, BUSH SAYS
In Washington, Bush told reporters on Friday: "Guantanamo is a necessary part of protecting the American people." (Wrong, you had a role as well as the CIA and FBI in 9/11)
Human rights activists said the horrific nature of the charges is being used as an excuse to justify a flawed system that allows the use of secret evidence and evidence that may have been obtained through torture.
If this is the best we can do, we risk forfeiting our ability to hold ourselves out as examples to the world," said Ben Wizner, who is monitoring the trials for the American Civil Liberties Union.
Fleener said he believed in protecting Americans from al Qaeda but viewed the tribunals as fundamentally unfair.
He is a federal public defender in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in civilian life and an Army reservist called to duty three months ago. His client is an alleged bodyguard for Osama bin Laden and does not want a lawyer appointed by the military enemies who captured him.
Fleener said he would comply with orders to put on a zealous defense but believes representing a client who has rejected him is an ethical violation that could cost him his law license.
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