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...participation in the 9/11 plot, has just had charges against him dropped by the top legal authority at the base. The charges were dismissed without formal explanation by so-called Convening Authority Susan J. Crawford - who has complete discretion over the specific charges Guantanamo inmates would face at trial. Brig. Gen. Tom Hartmann, the Authority's senior legal advisor, told TIME that the dismissal offered evidence of the "strength of the system and the careful, deliberative and fair legal process in place at Guantanamo...
...former top lawyer, general counsel William Haynes, informed him, "We can't have acquittals [at Guantanamo]. If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off?. We've got to have convictions." Davis is also quite likely to accuse Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, senior legal advisor to the tribunal, of demanding "sexy" cases with "blood on them" to drum up public support for convictions. "There is no question they wanted me to stage show trials that have nothing to do with the centuries-old tradition of military justice in America...
...Soon after, Senor began to give daily press briefings with Brig. Gen. Mark T. Kimmitt, a fellow HBS graduate. He said he and Kimmitt became targets for the insurgency...
...military industry complex that he wants to dismantle that his campaign headquarters in Virginia has no sign and is on the third floor of a building. He also travels with a bodyguard, Eli Israel, who emailed him from his station in Iraq and, Gravel says, was thrown in the brig for refusing to continue fighting until the Gravel campaign got him a lawyer. Israel usually makes up the entirety of his entourage. "You can pay someone $5,000 to get them rubbed out in South San Francisco," Gravel explains...
...native Jose Padilla to more than 17 years in prison for terrorist conspiracy has attracted attention. Soon after Padilla's arrest in 2002, he was designated an enemy combatant and faced years of alleged abuse, including stress positions and extreme sleep deprivation, in the isolation of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C. Eventually, a legal challenge made the government drop Padilla's enemy-combatant status, and he was permitted to face charges?conspiracy and providing aid to foreign terrorists?in federal court...