I'm sure most Americans couldn't care less about the injustices being done in our name at Guantánamo, but I found the whole process disturbing. Unfortunately, I doubt things will get much better when the [next administration takes office](http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/nov2008/guan-n21.shtml).
>In practice, the CSRTs [Combatant Status Review Tribunals] had prevented detainees from gaining access to lawyers and deprived them of an opportunity to present evidence or witnesses in their defense or to see or hear classified evidence against them. In 2007, US intelligence veteran Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, who worked on the tribunals, denounced them as nothing more than a front to rubber-stamp the military’s prior designation of detainees as enemy combatants
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