A Plea Deal Vanishes
Newsweek, May, 2008 by Dan Ephron
More than six years after it began imprisoning terrorist suspects at Guantánamo Bay, the Bush administration finally hopes to present evidence against one of them at trial next month and prove that its much-criticized military-commissions system can be fair. Yemeni national Salim Ahmed Hamdan, one of Gitmo’s highest-profile detainees, faces charges of conspiracy and giving material support to terrorists while serving as Osama bin Laden’s driver. But the commission’s former lead prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, now says the government weighed a plea agreement with Hamdan last year that would have halted a trial and presumably set a date for his release.
Davis told NEWSWEEK that Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the commission’s office, made...
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