http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/02/14/guantanamo-torture-on-trial/ Investigative journalist, author, filmmaker and Guantanamo expert Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:54:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2008/02/14/guantanamo-torture-on-trial/comment-page-1/#comment-15229 Andy Worthington Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:52:48 +0000 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=227#comment-15229 For an interesting take on the timing of the announcement, see the following article in Slate by former military lawyer Charles Swift, who represented Yemeni detainee Salim Hamdan in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the case that saw the Supreme Court throw out the first incarnation of the Military Commissions in June 2006. Passed over for promotion as a result of his fearless advocacy for Hamdan, Swift was then obliged to leave the US military, and now teaches law, while continuing to work on Hamdan's case as a civilian lawyer: http://www.slate.com/id/2184476/ For an interesting take on the timing of the announcement, see the following article in Slate by former military lawyer Charles Swift, who represented Yemeni detainee Salim Hamdan in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the case that saw the Supreme Court throw out the first incarnation of the Military Commissions in June 2006. Passed over for promotion as a result of his fearless advocacy for Hamdan, Swift was then obliged to leave the US military, and now teaches law, while continuing to work on Hamdan’s case as a civilian lawyer:
http://www.slate.com/id/2184476/

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