"If we’ve been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions."

Smoke, mirrors and bullshit.

Crooks and Liars » Rigged Trials For Gitmo Detainees: “We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions.”:

"...in an interview with The Nation in February after the six Guantánamo detainees were charged, Davis offered the most damning evidence of the military commissions’ bias–a revelation that speaks to fundamental flaws in the Bush Administration’s conduct of statecraft: its contempt for the rule of law and its pursuit of political objectives above all else."