Comments on: Guantánamo’s shambolic trials: Pentagon boss resigns, ex-chief prosecutor joins defense

By: Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:39:27 +0000

[...] occasions, they were rocked even more fundamentally: in October 2007, when the Chief Prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis, resigned, complaining that the entire process was subjected to political interference, and in September 2008 [...]

By: Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship : STATESMAN SENTINEL

Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship : STATESMAN SENTINEL — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:58:49 +0000

[...] who signed the statement is Daniel Dell’Orto, the acting general counsel for the DoD after the resignation of William J. Haynes in 2008. Dell’Orto was close to those who established the Bush administration’s torture [...]

By: Neocon Witchhunters and Dictatorship – Dark Politricks

Neocon Witchhunters and Dictatorship – Dark Politricks — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:40:55 +0000

By: Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org

Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Diary « freedetainees.org — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:39:06 +0000

[...] Damien Corsetti recalls the torture of prisoners in Bagram and Abu Ghraib (December 2007), Guantánamo’s shambolic trials (February 2008), Torture allegations dog Guantánamo trials (March 2008), Sami al-Haj: the banned [...]

By: The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, The Madness of the Military Commissions « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:55:52 +0000

[...] of prosecutors who resigned, including Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld and the former chief prosecutor, Col. Morris Davis, who all recognized that it was rigged to disguise the use of torture and to secure [...]

By: Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President! « freedetainees.org

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:17 +0000

[...] Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor of the Commissions, resigned in October 2007 was the following exchange with William J. Haynes II, the Pentagon’s chief counsel, which took place in August [...]

By: Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President! by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:26:50 +0000

By: Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:30:30 +0000

[...] disgust at what they saw as the politicization of the system or its irremediable faults (including Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor, and Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, who resigned last September), and all [...]

By: Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:27:48 +0000

[...] in October 2007, when Col. Morris Davis, the Commissions’ chief prosecutor, resigned, he stated, in subsequent statements, that he had done so not only because of the politicization of the process (which I wrote about in [...]

By: A Broken Circus: Guantánamo Trials Convene For One Day Of Chaos by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:12:28 +0000

[...] each of which had its own problems), the resignation of several prosecutors (including one Chief Prosecutor), the sacking of the Pentagon’s legal adviser, and a permanent state of semi-open revolt against [...]