A cura di @Guglielma Bon.

A Guantanamo sono detenuti ancora 41 prigionieri, di cui solo 7 sono sotto processo davanti a una commissione militare, mentre gli altri sono ancora in attesa.

But a measure of the futility of the legal response to the attacks is that there will soon enough be young military officers, at least eligible to serve as the equivalent of jurors on the military commission, who were also born after 9/11.

Problemi logistici e pratici si scontrano con basilari esigenze di diritto e mentre i mesi diventano anni (e decenni) i costi lievitano:

There were supposed to be hearings for both the 9/11 and the Cole cases in July, but Pohl and Spath put them on hold because, for one reason or the other, the Navy didn’t want to provide a fast boat to take the judges and their staffs from the airstrip to the courthouse, saying that they should just get a ride with victims’ families and the prosecution and defense lawyers. The judges objected, saying that this threatened their independence and violated their rules against “co-mingling.” The resolution involved the transfer of three hundred dollars from the Pentagon to the Navy; it took about a month to work out that deal. For perspective, it costs about four hundred and forty million dollars a year to maintain Guantánamo prison, or more than ten million dollars per inmate.

But, as absurd as the boat dispute might sound, it illustrates not only the logistical complexities of holding what should be the trial of the century on an isolated offshore base but the fact that, even now, the legal procedures are largely improvised.

Di questo (ed altro) si parla in un articolo pubblicato sul New Yorker.

 

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