Guantanamo cases aimed to pique U.S. imagination

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

By Jane Sutton

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, April 29 (Reuters) - A Pentagon legal adviser accused of improperly influencing the Guantanamo war crimes prosecutions dictated which cases would be tried based on their likelihood to pique public interest, a prosecutor testified on Tuesday.

The prosecutor, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Stone, said in a sworn statement that the government-appointed lawyer, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, explained his selections this way:

"This case is going to seize the imagination of the American public and that case won't."

Stone's statement came a day after testimony from former chief prosecutor Air Force Col. Moe Davis, that the Guantanamo court set up to try foreign terrorism suspects had been tainted by politics and improper influence from senior officials.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. And the seizing of the public's imagination is designed to coincide precisely with McSame's campaign

making this fraud, once again, a political stunt.

[Solly Mack]

2. Seriously?

Sheesh

[Supersedeas]

3. more military manipulation of US elections -- curiouser and curiouser