Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses the last ditch effort of Omar Khadr’s military lawyer to stop his client’s war crimes trial, government use of the catch-all ‘material support for terrorism’ charge when all other crimes won’t stick and why the popular outcry for ‘tough’ military commissions trials for accused terrorists ignores the near-perfect conviction rate in federal courts.
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