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Navy JAG Resigns Over Hartmann’s Testimony on Waterboarding

By International Association of Penal Law

In the aftermath of BG Thomas Hartmann’s Congressional testimony in which he stated that information received from a detainee who had been waterboarded could be admissible, a NAVY JAG has resigned his commission in protest. It is unclear what–if any–effect LCDR Andrew Williams’s resignation will have on other JAG’s. It is also unclear what the circumstances of LCDR Williams’s resignation are. However, in the context of the on-going debate regarding the limits of a lawful interrogation regime, LCDR Williams’s resignation should not be ignored. The question regarding the limits of interrogation of “9-11 detainees” clearly demands additional, serious debate in the public, Congress and White House...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on December 27, 2007 (boomark / email).