Meanness On Top of Crookedness

Some outstanding attorneys have taken on the job of defending the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, so it is inevitable that the administration that promotes torture would also want them to be punished. This cretinous crew has gone after one by court-martial so that his standing up for their victims will be revenged.

It should be no surprise that the war criminals would use their powers to subdue justice wherever it rises up and asserts the laws of our once-proud country.

As I pointed out in my post of May 10th on this, (Another Disgrace from the Cabal in the White House), the actions cited did not endanger this country.

Navy officer Matt Diaz put his career on the line when he disclosed the names of Guantanamo Bay detainees to a civil liberties group.

NORFOLK, Va. – Matt Diaz was a Navy lawyer with 18 years of military experience when duty called at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Six months there broke him.

Now, in a case that reflects the fierce dissent within the U.S. government over
the war on terrorism, the lieutenant commander faces a court-martial that could
send him to prison for 24 years. A jury convicted him late Thursday, and the sentencing phase of the case is set to begin Friday.

Cmdr. Diaz is on trial because of actions he took after concluding – as many of
higher rank have – that the Bush administration's offshore detention camp for terrorism suspects was making a mockery of American justice.

"My oath as a commissioned officer is to the Constitution of the United States," Cmdr. Diaz told The Dallas Morning News in his first public comments on the case. "I'm not a criminal."
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In his interview with the News, he recalled two prosecutors, in particular, who "objected to the way the system was set up to guarantee a conviction. I don't
believe they lasted long … they didn't make it to the first hearings."
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Conclusions of the Seton Hall Law School’s Guantanamo Project, based on government records acquired via litigation:
55: Percentage “not accused of committing a single hostile act”
8: Percentage identified by the Defense Department as al-Qaeda fighters
100: Percentage of hearings at which the government determined enemy combatant status without producing a witness
93: Percentage of hearings at which enemy combatant status was determined without production of documentary evidence

Unlike the war criminals in the executive branch, who are arguing that they cannot break the law by exposing our covert agents' identities and jeapordizing the country's security, those who give out the identities of our victims at Gitmo are treated as criminals. The 'state secret' as to who our war criminals torture and keep outside the justice system is the holy grail here.

This is beyond indecent, it is evil. Only a gang with the moral stature of dungbeetles would resort to such vileness. My apologies to the dungbeetles for the aspersion on their character.