News Flash! Prosecutors Are Supposed To Prosecute!

J.J. Jackson* | February 23, 2008

Filed Under General Goofiness, War On Terror

This is an interesting story with interesting implications. However much like the John McCain might have had an affair story run by the New York Times without any evidence to back up the claims, this one is also wanting.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - In a stunning turnaround, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday he would be a defense witness for the driver of Osama bin Laden.Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who resigned in October over alleged political interference in the U.S. military tribunals, told The Associated Press he will appear at a hearing for Salim Ahmed Hamdan.

“I expect to be called as a witness … I’m more than happy to testify,” Davis said in a telephone interview from Washington. He called it “an opportunity to tell the truth.”

At the April pretrial hearing inside the U.S. military base in southeast Cuba, Hamdan’s defense team plans to argue that alleged political interference cited by Davis violates the Military Commissions Act, Hamdan’s military lawyer, Navy Lt. Brian Mizer, told the AP.

Davis alleges, among other things, that Pentagon general counsel William Haynes said in August 2005 that any acquittals of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo would make the United States look bad, calling into question the fairness of the proceedings.

“He said ‘We can’t have acquittals, we’ve got to have convictions,’” Davis recalled.

A Pentagon spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon, denied that Haynes made such a comment. Gordon also denied the former prosecutor’s allegations of political interference, which he has repeated in newspaper opinion columns and in interviews in recent months.

And that is the sum of the evidence the author, Mr. Ben Fox gives.

So a prosecutor was told that his job was to get convictions? This is a news story why?

Because it says something negative about Guantanamo Bay and our soldiers. That’s why.

Come on. If you are going to make accusations, at least back them up!

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