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JAG General “not equipped to answer” if an Iranian waterboarding uniformed airman would violate Geneva

By International Association of Penal Law

I previously blogged about the Senate Judicary Committee’s Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security hearing regarding Guantanamo. In that post I mentioned that it would be wise for the committee to invite Colonel Morris Davis who recently resigned from his position as Chief Prosecutor. In resigning, Colonel Davis, according to this LA Times Report, “cited what he considered inappropriate political pressures on the legal process in his decision to seek reassignment.” In a subsequent LA Times Editorial Colonel Davis cited as reasons for his resignation his firm and public determination to not offer evidence derived from methods which might amount to torture, including specifically waterboarding. Volokh later picked up on the story here, confirming what I had blogged about, that the Pentagon had ordered Colonel Davis to not testify...continue to full post

Full post as published by AIDP Blog on December 12, 2007 (boomark / email).