Prosecutors Can Be Heroes
- From: bks@xxxxxxxxx (Bradley K. Sherman)
- Date: 9 Oct 2008 19:29:15 -0400
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| Another Gitmo Prosecutor Quits
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| Radley Balko, October 9, 2008
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| Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld is at least the sixth JAG officer
| prosecuting cases in Guantanamo Bay to resign or request a
| transfer in protest of how the Pentagon is administering
| the tribunals. His letter of resignation was revealed late
| last month during proceedings in the case against accused
| enemy combatant Mohammed Jawad.
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| Vandeveld quit because he was alarmed at what he says were
| gross due process violations in the Jawad case. From his
| letter:
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| My ethical qualms about continuing to serve as a
| prosecutor relate primarily to the procedures for
| affording defense counsel discovery. I am highly
| concerned, to the point that I believe I can no
| longer serve as a prosecutor at the Commissions,
| about the slipshod, uncertain "procedure" for
| affording defense counsel discovery. One would
| have thought that after six years since the
| Commissions had their fitful start, that a
| functioning law office would have been set up and
| procedures and policies not only put into effect,
| but refined.
| ...
<http://www.reason.com/blog/show/129371.html>
A real American hero. Put Vandeveld in charge of JAG and
put Lindsay Graham in Guantanamo.
--bks
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