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Brig. Gen. Hartmann Responds to Col. Morris Davis

By International Association of Penal Law

In the op-ed below, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann responds to Col Morris Davis’ op-ed (LA Times, Dec 10, 2007) regarding the reasons for his resignation. In the op-ed, BG Hartmann does not address the essence of Davis’ argument: that he was forced to use illegally obtained evidence. To that end, in his Congressional testimony (Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, Tuesday, December 11, 2007) BG Hartmann suggested that information received from a detainee subjected to water-boarding would be admissible evidence in a military commission trial. Furthermore, Hartmann’s claim that “the process offers unprecedented rights to alleged war criminals” is troubling as, to the best of my knowledge, the US has not declared GITMO detainees to be “war criminals...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on December 19, 2007 (boomark / email).