It appears that tapes of interviews and torture interrogations were routinely overwritten, in defiance of a court order.

Not only does cast a pall over the Guantanamo show trials, it may make it impossible to hold a trial in a real court as a result.

The cynic in me believes that this was the intent. Screw it up so badly that the only alternative is a Kangaroo court.

Look at Saddam Hussein’s trial. How you run such an unfair trial, when the defendant was so plainly guilty, is completely beyond me.