When SDS wouldn't go along with this arrogant old left thinking, (funded in part by the CIA), there was an internal "trial" and interrogation that led to SDS' defunding an ouster from its offices.
Ad hoc municipal committees were meeting in rooms once used for trials and interrogations; paper signs hung on the doors, stating their new purpose.
Few tears will be shed in Libya if the country presses ahead with trials and interrogations of Saif and Senussi, who are seen as key players in 40 years of brutal dictatorship.
And Willingham's wife insisted during the trial and under interrogation that Willingham had not physically abused the children.
In practice, this means that a Palestinian and an Israeli settler who stand accused of the same crime, committed in the exact same territory, experience fundamentally separate criminal justice systems, from arrest through interrogation, trial and punishment.
But if withholding a piece of evidence at trial, or coercive interrogation techniques isn't misconduct, then what is? "I think it's blatant misconduct, and they're getting away with it," said Don Connery, an independent journalist who writes about wrongful convictions.
Trial documents and interrogations of AQIM extremists in west Africa have revealed the difficulties groups have sometimes had in finding suitable targets and arranging logistics.
Already, Judge Kaplan has rejected two key defense requests to dismiss charges, on grounds of government misconduct and speedy-trial violations, and prosecutors have said they do not intend to use statements from Mr. Ghailani's interrogation at trial.
The administration claims continuing authority for military detention, interrogation and trial.
"I was one of them, spending three years under 'protective custody' without interrogation or trial," Mr. Sein Win recounted.
