Rumsfeld Appoints Panelists to Review Proceedings at Military Terror Trials

By Keith Costa / December 30, 2003 at 5:00 AM
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has chosen four individuals to review the military trials of suspected enemy combatants caught in the war against terrorism, the Pentagon announced today. Included in that group are Griffin Bell, a former U.S. attorney general in the Carter administration who had served as a judge on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and former Rep. Edward Biester (R-PA), who served as Pennsylvania attorney general and a judge for the Court of Common Pleas in Bucks...

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