{"id":75739,"date":"2017-11-02T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=75739"},"modified":"2017-11-02T10:21:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T14:21:45","slug":"air-force-colonel-orders-marine-general-to-confinement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=75739","title":{"rendered":"Air Force colonel orders Marine General to confinement"},"content":{"rendered":"

MCPO sends us a link to the Miami Herald<\/a> which reports that Air Force Judge Colonel Vance Spath sentenced Marine Brigadier General John Baker to 21 days confinement and to pay a $1,000 fine for refusing the judge’s decision rescinding the general’s decision to release civilian lawyers, Rick Kammen, Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears from their obligation to defend Abd al Rahim al Nashiri in the USS Cole bombing case.<\/p>\n

The judge ordered Baker confined to his trailer quarters on Guantanamo Bay Navy Base and he ordered the lawyers to litigate the terrorists defense by telecommuting from New York City.<\/p>\n

Spath, who has declared they had no good cause to quit, had ordered Kammen, Eliades and Spears to come to Guant\u00e1namo on Sunday with other war court staff for a pretrial hearing. They refused. Kammen, a veteran capital defense attorney who had represented Nashiri for a decade, said Spath\u2019s order to travel was an \u201cillegal\u201d effort to have three U.S. citizens \u201cprovide unethical legal services to keep the fa\u00e7ade of justice that is the military commissions running.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nashiri is accused of orchestrating al Qaida\u2019s Oct. 12, 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship off Yemen. Seventeen sailors died, and dozens more were injured. He has been in U.S. custody for 15 years, and was arraigned in 2011.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Baker has been a critic of the hybrid-military\/civilian court system in Guantanamo, according to Russia Today<\/a>;<\/p>\n

“Put simply, the military commissions in their current state are a farce,\u201d Baker said at a talk last year.<\/p>\n

As of Monday, Nashiri had just one attorney to represent him in the trial, and it is a US Navy lieutenant with no death penalty experience. The man could face military execution if he is convicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I wonder if they’ve given that lieutenant a compass and a map – that would ensure that his client will die, one way or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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