Equal Justice in the Balance

The original idea for this review was to compare this book with the book by Alan Dershowitz entitled America on Trial, Inside the Legal Battles that Transformed our Nation, which came out around the same time in 2004 (Warner Books, ISBN:0-446-52058-6). However, it turned out that Dershowitz's book contains an historical perusal of trials since the colonial times and that only scant reference is made to issues that are the subject of Kelly's book in the last chapter on the Guantánamo detainees. The only time that Dershowitz's ideas converge with Kelly's, is when he observes that “it is somewhat ironic that, under the Defense Department's approach, this mass murderer (i.e. Saddam Hussein), who is directly responsible for numerous war crimes against his own people as well as against foreign civilians, will be treated far better than a foot soldier of the Taliban, captured in the battle fields of

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