Military lawyers see limits on trial input

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WASHINGTON -- Despite assuring Congress that career military lawyers are helping design new trials for accused terrorists, the Bush administration has limited their input on their key request, that any tribunals must give detainees the right to see the evidence against them, officials said.

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Members of Congress have pressured the White House to listen to the military lawyers as it drafts the legislation, and on Aug. 2, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told lawmakers that ``our deliberations have included detailed discussion" with military attorneys whose ``multiple rounds of comments . . . will be reflected in the legislative package."

But the issue of secret evidence, officials said, has been off the table for all of those discussions with the exception of one meeting between Gonzales and the top military lawyers in late July. The session ended in an impasse, and the issue has not been raised again, they said.
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``This didn't start with the torture fight," said Martin Lederman , a Georgetown law professor who worked in the Justice Department from 1994 to 2002. ``They've believed in this as a matter of religious faith for a long time. They knew it was going to matter, even though they didn't yet know what it was going to matter for."
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/08/27/military_lawyers_see_limits_on_trial_input/?page=1

The administration is still hell bent for show trials and
war without rules in general. The article points out
repeated attempts by the administration to hijack the
JAG Corps. If the chickenhawks can't co-opt the military
lawyers, they will lock them out, with the usual
catastrophic results.

Unfortunately, this is consistent with everything the
Bush/Cheney administration has done to date.