Pentagon Denies Media Access to Guantanamo Tribunals for CIA Terror Prisoners

FNC ^ | 3/6/7 | A.P.

[do the dhue]

WASHINGTON — Reporters will be barred from hearings that begin Friday in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for 14 terror suspects transferred last year from secret CIA prisons, officials said Tuesday.

Interest in the 14 is particularly high because of their alleged links to the Al Qaeda network. Among them is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. He was captured in Pakistan in March 2003.

A New York-based human rights group that represents one of the 14 men accused the Pentagon of designing "sham tribunals." The organization contended that its client, Majid Khan, has been denied access to his lawyers since October 2006 "solely to prevent his torture and abuse from becoming public" and to protect complicit foreign governments.

U.S. authorities say Khan was being groomed by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed for an attack inside the United States.

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[do the dhue]

Can you imagine what would happen if we let the New York Times cover the tribunals?

[denydenydeny]

They might as well bring in Barnum and Bailey if they let CNN in.

[jazusamo]

Excellent decision and the enemedia is really going to scream.

[tobyhill]

Good! If Congress or the Judiciary wants to keep running their liberal mucks to the MSM fine but there needs to be an executive order prohibiting anyone in that branch from ever speaking to the media ever again and the Pentagon should issue the same order.

[Uncle Miltie]

Amen. Keep the court clear and the records sealed. These guys should not have a podium from which to spew Islamofascism.

[CyberAnt]

ONE DAMN THING RIGHT .. I guess that's better than nothing.

[do the dhue]

I was just thinking, maybe we should stick them with Helen Thomas.

Maybe we let her in Gitmo and never let her out.

That could be the terrorists punishment.

[do the dhue]

let 'um

[do the dhue]

I concur

[do the dhue]

Amen. Keep the court clear and the records sealed. These guys should not have a podium from which to spew Islamofascism.

Hear Hear!!

[roses of sharon]

Thank goodness, a sane decision.

[do the dhue]

I hate to be this way, but don't get used to it ...

[do the dhue]

I hate to be this way, but don't get used to it ...

[Tzimisce]

Aw great, here comes the whinning from the left..

[VaBthang4]

They better hang every last one of them.