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TIME has obtained a variety of internal memos circulating at the Department of Defense that detail possible rule changes at Gitmo, if the camp and its controversial legal system survive. The proposals - under discussion but not formally adopted - could be included in the Pentagon's official "Manual for Military Commissions," a handbook of rules for the controversial proceedings. What follows are excerpts from those memos...
...rule creates a psychotherapist-patient privilege for the detainees, and greatly restricts the government's access to mental health records. This will doubtlessly result in considerable litigation, where allegations of torture and abuse are raised at trial...
...High-achieving Ivy Leaguers no doubt should be proud of their academic records and their long and impressive resumes—but, they ought not, at least not for the time being—think themselves capable or deserving of rule...
...idea that the “wise” should rule is as old as politics itself. The ancient philosophers Plato and Aristotle preferred what, in Greek, would be termed “the rule of the best.” Such a regime, however, seems to collide fundamentally with the egalitarian principles enunciated in our founding documents and the democratic sensibilities about government held by many, if not most, Americans. We like to think that in America anyone—even the descendant of an East-African goatherd—can become president. Anyone, nowadays at least...
...does the intellect assured by an Ivy League diploma grant its bearer a sufficient title to rule? Is political virtue equivalent to the type of knowledge and intellectual agility required for success at places like Harvard? The point, pace the politically ambitious set at Harvard, remains far from certain...