Brett Wilkins is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Attorneys representing alleged 9/11 planners imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay argued Wednesday that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin 's move to block plea deals for three defendants violated Pentagon rules and belied the corruption of the military commission system established during the George W. Bush administration.
'' Sowards acknowledged that motions for discovery on the issue of potential unlawful influence by Austin, which would 'seek to explore how he was coerced and influenced,' could take a year or two to litigate. But the issue of the Manual for Military Commissions regulation is 'a simple reading of about 12 lines of text,' he said, and a decision on it should be able to be expedited. Prosecutor Clayton Trivett Jr.
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