Tribunals for six detainees at Guantanamo Bay charged with war crimes related to the September 11 attacks have "hit a snag" as military defence lawyers are "in short supply."  

In the two months since the charges were announced, "not one of the six detainees has met his military lawyer."  

Now, "a growing consensus among lawyers" believes that few of the detainees' "cases are likely to actually come to trial before the end of the Bushit administration." 

Dozens of Afghan men who were previously held by the US at Bagram Air Base & Guantánamo Bay are now being tried here in secretive Afghan criminal proceedings based mainly on allegations forwarded by the American military.  

Human rights investigators have claimed that the ‘trials’ last anywhere from 10 minutes to a couple of hours & can result in prison sentences of up to 20 years.  

meanwhile ….. 

A week or so ago we noted Andrew Sullivan's prediction that Bushit would one day face a war crimes tribunal.  

Last night ABC News ran with a story that certainly points precisely towards a trip to the Hague.  

Short version: the Bushit regime's top capos – ‘strangelove’ Cheney, ‘conning’ Condoleeza Rice, ‘roger ramjet’ Rumsfeld, ‘mister secrets’ Tenet & ‘call me Col’n’ Powell - sat around the White House discussing & approving clearly illegal torture specifics. 

In interview with ABC's Charles Gibson last year, Tenet said: "It was authorized. It was legal, according to the Attorney General of the United States."  

But this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the Bushit Outhouse explicitly approved the details of the program.  

According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them. 

According to a top official, Ashcroft asked aloud after one meeting: "Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly."