{"id":198102,"date":"2007-12-13T00:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/13\/former-gitmo-prosecutor-blasts-military-commissions-bush-and-his-evil-minions-order-him-not-to-testify-before-congress\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T00:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T05:08:00","slug":"former-gitmo-prosecutor-blasts-military-commissions-bush-and-his-evil-minions-order-him-not-to-testify-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/13\/former-gitmo-prosecutor-blasts-military-commissions-bush-and-his-evil-minions-order-him-not-to-testify-before-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gitmo Prosecutor Blasts Military Commissions, Bush and His Evil Minions\u2122 Order Him Not to Testify Before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interesting, Colonel Morris Davis, former prosecutor writes an OP\/ED for the LA Times about why he stepped down from his position as prosecutor as the Pentagon’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor blasts the military commissions process<\/a> because he, “”elt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively or responsibly.” <\/p>\n

He goes on to state that the commissions lacked the, “atmosphere of honesty and impartiality”, essential to legitimacy. He accuses the convening authority (basically the people who will act as judge and jury)), of, “Intermingling convening authority and prosecutor roles perpetuates the perception of a rigged process stacked against the accused.”<\/p>\n

Further he believes that the trials can be conducted largely in open court<\/span>, and that closed door proceedings further degraded the legitimacy of the proceedings.<\/p>\n

The Senate Judiciary Committee called him, but did not subpoena him, to testify before them on these and related issues, but he was ordered not to appear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Orwell is spinning so rapidly in his grave that you could power all of Bristol with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interesting, Colonel Morris Davis, former prosecutor writes an OP\/ED for the LA Times about why he stepped down from his position as prosecutor as the Pentagon’s Chief War Crimes Prosecutor blasts the military commissions process because he, “”elt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1006,978,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-military","category-politics","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}