{"id":669,"date":"2008-02-28T09:28:04","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/28\/from-guantanamo-chief-prosecutor-to-witness-for-the-defense\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T14:28:04","slug":"from-guantanamo-chief-prosecutor-to-witness-for-the-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/28\/from-guantanamo-chief-prosecutor-to-witness-for-the-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"From Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor to Witness for the Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/28\/us\/28gitmo.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=3&amp;ei=5088&amp;en=7517e5b779940668&amp;ex=1361941200&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">This<\/a> is an amazing story, I think, with the potential for extraordinary consequences:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Until four months ago, Col. Morris D. Davis was the chief prosecutor at <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/national\/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions\/guantanamobaynavalbasecuba\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" title=\"More news and information about Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo.\">Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay<\/a> and the most colorful champion of the Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military commission system. He once said sympathy for detainees was nauseating and compared putting them on trial to dragging \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Dracula out into the sunlight.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Then in October he had a dispute with his boss, a general. Ever since, he has been one of those critics who will not go away: a former top insider, with broad shoulders and a well-pressed uniform, willing to turn on the system he helped run.<\/p>\n<p>Still in the military, he has irritated the administration, saying in articles and interviews that Pentagon officials interfered with prosecutors, exerted political pressure and approved the use of evidence obtained by torture.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Colonel Davis has taken his most provocative step, completing his transformation from Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chief prosecutor to its new chief critic. He has agreed to testify at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo on behalf of one of the detainees, <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/h\/salim_ahmed_hamdan\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Salim Ahmed Hamdan.\">Salim Ahmed Hamdan<\/a>, a driver for <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/osama_bin_laden\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Osama bin Laden.\">Osama bin Laden<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As outspoken as Col. Davis has been (remember, he&#8217;s the source for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/docprint.mhtml?i=20080303&amp;s=tuttle\">the story<\/a> in which DOD Gen Counsel William Haynes blanches at the idea of a system that results in anything but a conviction), I suspect there&#8217;s a lot more to be heard.\u00c2\u00a0 And when might we hear it?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping at some point to retire, so I can say what I really think,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an amazing story, I think, with the potential for extraordinary consequences: Until four months ago, Col. Morris D. Davis was the chief prosecutor at Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Bay and the most colorful champion of the Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military commission system. He once said sympathy for detainees was nauseating and compared putting them on trial to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}