In fact, they are operating on a law of their own. It is not even U.S. law, because even the Supreme Court of the United States has attacked the commission and what it does. That commission--the MCA--is also allowed to hold people for an indefinite period of detention, to use evidence obtained by torture, and to hold trial more than once for the same crime. It denies the protection in the Geneva conventions of the right to see incriminating evidence before trial. It goes against every element of justice that we know.
I do not believe it's the United States that has thrown aside the conventions and what they have ratified on the child soldiers protocol and so on; it is that specific military commission, which was set up by the President through the Pentagon and the Secretary of Defense in a process that they believe is part of their security program with regard to terrorism. In so doing, it is a political institution; it is not purely military, nor is it a legal institution. It is a political tool that the President has used in excess of his power to install.
The way to sort it out is to get the Prime Minister of this country to call the President and say, “I want my boy out, and we'll fill in the paperwork after”, and that's it.