Who's running the Gitmo courts...? Why Darth, of course...!

oh, darth... you smooth operator, you...

Australian Prime Minister John Howard ... lobbied Cheney during [Cheney's] February visit for the [David Hicks] trial to “be brought on as soon as humanly possible and with no further delay.” The plea bargain itself was brokered by Susan Crawford, the top military commission official and a former Department of Defense inspector general under then-Secretary of Defense Cheney, without the knowledge or input of the lawyers prosecuting Hicks. The lead prosecutor expressed shock over the light sentence.

Given the nature of the deal, suspicions are being raised that the plea agreement may have been an orchestrated gesture by Cheney to benefit Howard in his re-election fight.

read what andrew sullivan has to say...

If you think this was in any way a legitimate court process, you’re smoking something even George Michael would pay a lot of money for. It was a political deal, revealing the circus that the alleged Gitmo court system really is.

oh, gosh and golly... why are we NOT surprised... and particularly NOT surprised at the fact that it was brokered "without the knowledge or input of the lawyers prosecuting Hicks..." how in character for darth... i'm disgusted, a chronic condition for me these days...

(thanks to think progress...)

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