The Star Chamber
Dec 11th, 2007 at 11:17 am by Susie
Remember when this sort of thing was unusual?
The chief prosecutor for Guantanamo Bay’s military commissions has revealed that he relinquished his position after concluding that “full, fair and open trials” for the accused were impossible.
“I resigned,” writes Morris D. Davis in the Los Angeles Times, “because I felt that the system had become deeply politicized and that I could no longer do my job effectively or responsibly.”
Davis, an Air Force officer and lawyer, says “it is absolutely critical to the legitimacy of the military commissions that they be conducted in an atmosphere of honesty and impartiality.
“Yet the political appointee known as the ‘convening authority,’” a position he noted that had no civilian counterpart, “was not living up to that obligation.”
Very good point.
I can’t believe people aren’t making a bigger deal out of this. While I do think that terrorists need to be brought to justice, setting up unaccountable courts and torture camps isn’t the way to go about it.