Guantanamo detainees are slowly receiving status hearings to determine whether they stay in jail or go free.

The hearings are held in secret, no defense lawyers are allowed, and the detainees can't see the evidence against them.

But even more bizarre, if the Pentagon brass does not like the verdict, they can have the hearing done over. Some detainees have had as many as three hearings before the tribunal finally got it right and declared them enemy combatants.

Try once and if you don't indict...