Unintentionally Revealing Quotes Dept.

From the BBC for December 31:

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has named a former army general to oversee military tribunals for foreign terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.

Retired army lawyer John Altenburg will approve charges against the detainees and appoint the members of the military panels that will try them. ...

The rules for the trials, including allowing the Pentagon to monitor communications between defendants and their lawyers, have also come under criticism from legal activists.

A senior military official rejected the need for civilian US federal courts to hear appeals.

"I think what we have right now is a complete, fair, stand-alone procedure," the official told Reuters news agency.

Let's see. The same person who approves the charges picks the judges and the rules require the military to be allowed to know whatever defense attorneys and clients say to each other. Complete and stand-alone it certainly is - and it does give a good idea of what they consider "fair."