JUDGE WALTER T. COX, III OPINES WE NEED TO IMPROVE OUR PREVENTATIVE DETENTION AND ATTAINDER PRACTICES!

"Our goal is to make the military justice system function in a manner which ensures justice to the servicemember," said Walter Cox, former chief justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, who heads the commission. "We’re not looking to duplicate the civilian system; we all know that’s not perfect. We’re looking to improve on our own system."

Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee completed its markup of the National Defense Authorization Bill for 2010, observing:

“[t]he regular military courts in our system are the courts-martial established by congressional statutes” and that a military commission “can be ‘regularly constituted’ by the standards of our military justice system only if some practical need explains deviations from court-martial practice.”