Legal Commentary

ACLU: Gitmo Prosecutor Resigns In Protest

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

via ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union:

We learned late today that Army Lieutenant Colonel Darrel Vandeveld, the lead prosecutor in the military commissions case against Mohammed Jawad, has resigned in protest because the prosecution team was not providing the defense evidence that could indicate Jawad’s innocence. Jawad was a teenager when he was captured in Afghanistan and he’s one of the two youngest prisoners at Guantánamo.

I’ve said it before and will say it again: the JAGs are the heroes of the “war against terror”.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).