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Earlier this month, the Bush administration decided to seek the death penalty against six suspects in the Sept. 11 plot - and to do so in the kangaroo courts. The tribunals’ limits on defendants’ access to evidence make them a mockery of US justice under any circumstances. To use them for death-penalty cases against defendants such as the alleged mastermind of Sept. 11 is to invite international condemnation.

A new critique of the tribunals came from the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, Colonel Morris Davis. Davis, who quit his job last year after his superiors, would not commit to excluding evidence obtained during waterboarding, said he would testify for the defense in the trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden but not one of the six Sept. 11 defendants. The colonel said he would testify about interference in the tribunals, including a statement by William Haynes, the Pentagon’s general counsel, that any acquittals of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo would make the US look bad.

The Pentagon denies Haynes made the statement, but Davis’s testimony will ensure that US standards of justice will be on trial in any tribunal proceedings. The US can

avoid that by bringing charges against terrorism suspects in a federal criminal court. — The New York Times