by Jacob G. Hornberger

Future of Freedom Foundation

09/02/04

The Pentagon's decision to admit hearsay evidence at its military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay flies in the face of one of the most important principles in the administration of criminal justice -- the right to confront one's accuser and cross-examine him in the presence of the jury. In fact, our American ancestors deemed the principle so important that they included it in the Sixth Amendment ...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0409b.asp