Over The Top- Pentagon To Orchestrate War Crimes Prosecutions for 2008 Elections?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Lawyer: Gitmo trials pegged to '08 campaign
Posted on Fri, Mar. 28, 2008

BY CAROL ROSENBERG

The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver argues in a Guantánamo military commissions motion that senior Pentagon officials are orchestrating war crimes prosecutions for the 2008 campaign.

The Pentagon declined late Friday to address the defense lawyer's allegations, noting that the matter is under litigation.

The brief filed Thursday by Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer directly challenged the integrity of President Bush's war court.

Notably, it describes a Sept. 29, 2006, meeting at the Pentagon in which Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, a veteran White House appointee, asked lawyers to consider Sept. 11, 2001, prosecutions in light of the campaign.

''We need to think about charging some of the high-value detainees because there could be strategic political value to charging some of these detainees before the election,'' England is quoted as saying.

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http://www.miamiherald.com/guantanamo/story/474196.html

Head spinning. Hard time interpreting.

[Juche]

1. Dems do the same thing

Conyers is probably saving the subpoena of Ken Blackwell for the 2008 election.

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/2008/02/blackwell-is-subpoenaed-by-house.html

[Preston120]

2. But Do They Call It Justice?

[Turner Ashby]

3. I don't care who does it.

In neither case is it justice, and it shouldn't be done. Certainly lawyers can smell such political prosecutions a mile away. That is why most lawyers don't trust the Feds or the Dept of Justice. Lawyers just trying to get their name in ink to further their career at the expense of another person's life is not justice.

[msongs]

4. here I thought maybe bush/cheney would be prosecuted for war crimes. darn! nt

[jtrockville]

5. Me too.