Does not fit in the Bush administration:
The Pentagon was successful in preventing Col. Morris Davis from testifying before Congress. But he's taking a step that could be even more damaging: agreeing to testify as a defense witness in a Guantanamo Bay tribunal. From the AP:
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.
The Wall Street Journal reports (sub. req.) that Morris' testimony could potentially impact all of the tribunals.
4 comments:
The Colonel has 5 Meritorious Service Medals, 3 Air Force Commendation Medals, and 2 Air Force Achievement Medals on his top row of ribbons, he is definitely not a slacker, and was definitely in line for a star as he made colonel in 20 years.
His testimony is going to do serious damage to the kangaroo court system.
Thank you, Colonel, for your honorable service.
This kind of thing is among the most heinous act the Bushists have perpetrated against the honorable members of our military. Those guys and gals take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, and most of them take that oath very seriously, at least as seriously as I take a similar oath I once took in a civilian context. Obviously, Col. Davis does so.
Guantanamo hosts the most egregious violations of basic principles of American law in my lifetime. Only an ongoing series of truth-tellings by honorable people can overcome these violations. IMHO, Col. Davis deserves another medal for what he does here.
Yes. We need to keep him in the public eye so that any shifty attempt to slime him creates justified public outrage.
We don't all have to roll around in the shitpile that the Bush cabal lives in.
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