The administration is intent on pushing forward with trials that owe more to the show trials of Stalinist Russia than they do to long-established principles of American justice.

Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.

Two years after being cleared for release from Guantánamo by a military review board, Adel Hassan Hamad, a Sudanese hospital administrator who worked...

Capt. Allred appeared to have put together such a compelling case for Hamdan's rights as a Prisoner of War that his sudden decision to discard these well-honed arguments smacks of interference from the highest levels of the administration.