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G.I. Lawyer: A Real American Hero
Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon of Slate – who for the last six years have done yeowoman's work chronicling the fight to preserve the rule of law in the face of the Kangaroo Kommissions of Guantanamo – this week file a remarkably upbeat dispatch spotlighting some previously unrecognized heros: The uniformed men and women ordered to prosecute secret murder trials based on evidence extracted through torture, who have stepped up in various ways and essentially said to the president, "Sorry, but this is bullshit."
Critics of the president's military commissions worried that the bodies would do their work in secret, in the legal shadows, answering only to the president as their commander in chief. But the soldiers and lawyers who insist on holding the proceedings to a higher standard have, at crucial moments, operated in the open. They've navigated by the light of the Constitution, sometimes at an enormous cost to their careers. Their performance is the best thing the Guantanamo commissions have to offer.
Thank you, thank you: Susan Crawford, Charles Swift, Morris Davis, Keith Allred, Robert Preston, John Carr, Carrie Wolf, Stuart Couch and other unnamed servicemembers for your defending our country. God blessed America when he gave us you guys.
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