Former U.S. Prosecutor in Nuremberg Trials Criticizes Guantánamo Trials
In a telephone interview with Reuters(article, in English), Henry King Jr. who served under Jackson, chief prosecutor at the trials created by the Allied powers to try Nazi military and political leaders after World War Two in Nuremberg, Germany scathed the way alleged enemy combatants are tried in Guantánamo:
"I think Robert Jackson, who's the architect of Nuremberg, would turn over in his grave if he knew what was going on at Guantanamo[.]"
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