Military Lawyers Stand Up For Fundamental American Values "...The military defence lawyers challenged the government’s sole power to act as jailer, judge and possibly executioner in the case of prisoners captured overseas and held indefinitely at the US Navy prison camp in Cuba. “Unlike earlier wars, the struggle against terrorism is potentially never-ending,” the military lawyers wrote. “The constitution cannot countenance an open-ended presidential power, with no civilian review whatsoever, to try anyone the president deems subject to a military tribunal, whose rules and judges have been selected by the prosecuting authority itself.”..." Attribution: