Ethics

Gitmo Prosecutor Speaks Out

By Ed Brayton

Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the 4th Gitmo prosecutor to resign in protest of what they consider unjust military tribunals, exchanged some emails with the LA Times, which you can read about here. What he tells them should be a wake up call for everyone who still supports the Bush administration's unconstitutional and unjust policies. First they quote an email that he sent to a priest when he began to doubt what was going on:

Even if he had no doubt about the guilt of the accused, he wrote in an August e-mail, "I am beginning to have grave misgivings about what I am doing, and what we are doing as a country. . . .

"I no longer want to participate in the system, but I lack the courage to quit. I am married, with children, and not only will they suffer, I'll lose a lot of friends."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 20, 2008 (boomark / email).