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Location: Old Europe Posts: 7,158 | Gitmo 'attack dog' turns on his Pentagon masters
TheStar.com | World | Gitmo 'attack dog' turns on his Pentagon masters Quote:
Until four months ago, Col. Moe Davis was the chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay and the most colourful champion of the Bush administration's military commission system. He once said sympathy for detainees was nauseating and compared putting them on trial to dragging "Dracula out into the sunlight."
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.
Still in the military, he has irritated the administration, saying that Pentagon officials interfered with prosecutors, exerted political pressure and approved the use of evidence obtained by torture.
Now, Davis has taken his most provocative step, completing his transformation from Guantanamo's chief prosecutor to its new chief critic. He has agreed to testify at Guantanamo on behalf of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden. (...)
| Rats from a burning ship.
Quite a spectacle.
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