GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his appointees set rules that violate President George W. Bush's order to hold fair trials for prisoners charged with terrorism in the Guantanamo tribunals, a military defence lawyer said on Friday.
"We can't help it that the secretary of defence and his delegees (sic) have messed this thing up, but they have," military lawyer Army Maj. Tom Fleener told the presiding officer at one of the hearings.
"If the rules don't provide for a full and fair trial, then they violate the president's order."
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