Chris Dodd for President

After detaining hundreds of terrorism suspects for more than five years at the Guantánamo Bay prison, the Bush administration still hasn't created a fair system for trying terror-war crimes. The first military commissions were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Now the second set of rules for terror-war trials, issued last month, fails -- again -- to abide by long-established U.S. and international legal standards.

Coercion, not torture

As Lord Peter Goldsmith, Britain's top lawyer, told the American Bar Association in Miami on Monday, ``The changes made are too little and too late. There remain fundamental problems with this system of detention.''

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