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Military Probing Abuse of Power by Top Gitmo Brass

Posted by Steve Czajkowski, Jurist Legal News and Research at 3:30 PM on October 27, 2008.


Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann is being investigated for inappropriately seeking to influence the military commissions trials.
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[JURIST] The U.S. Air Force is conducting an ethics investigation of Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann over allegations that he abused his power and inappropriately influenced the prosecution of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay, military officials said Saturday. Hartmann was the legal advisor to the U.S. military commissions at Guantanamo and supervisor of the Office of Military Commissions-Prosecution (OMC-P) until he was reassigned to the position of director of operations of the Office of Military Commissions last month. It has been alleged that Hartmann forced officials at Guantanamo to bring prosecution cases before they were ready, prosecuted an individual on charges that were unwarranted, and that he tried to get prosecutors to use coerced evidence notwithstanding their objections. The Air Force is also investigating complaints by two military officials that Hartmann exhibited abusive and retaliatory behavior towards them within the Office of Military Commissions. The Los Angeles Times has more. AP has additional coverage.

Earlier this year military judges presiding over the trials of Guantanamo detainees Omar Khadr, Mohammed Jawad and Salim Ahmed Hamdan barred Hartmann from taking any part in the trials of those detainees on grounds that he was unduly biased towards the prosecution. U.S. Army Gen. Gregory Zanetti, deputy commander at Guantanamo Bay, testified in August that Hartmann routinely bullied his counterparts and was inappropriately aggressive in seeking indictments against detainees. In October, newly resigned Guantanamo chief military prosecutor Col. Morris Davis said during his tenure Hartmann questioned the need for open trials and was upset with the slow pace of the proceedings begun by Davis.

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Wow, I guess they are fleeing a sinking ship
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Posted by: Lauren on Oct 27, 2008 8:58 PM   
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I was feeling like we were doing pretty good these days, so look what pops up, another attempt to create immunity for the torturers.

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Soem wear the Uniform for Service, Others for pure Power
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Posted by: Purple Girl on Oct 28, 2008 6:30 AM   
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Let's not get so gooey eyed about a uniform, and not take into consideration that which carries it around.
Least we forget Gen Benedict Arnold..Our nations first Notorious Traitor.
many Choose to Serve as their patriotic duty, others just want to wear it as camoflague for their sick twisted personal fetish.
Arlo Guthrie was not exaggerating that screaming "I wanna Kill, Kill.Eat dead burnt bodies... " will not only get you in the military, it will guarantee you a High ranking position.
Seriously, there must be lengthy and indepth mental evaluations conducted not only on Recruits but throughout their career.
How do you explain a female soldier being held in a storage container after being raped, by her own cohorts. Only ONE gave her access to a phone to call for Help...ONE!
That's the reason I have never been mesmerized by McCains self proclaimed 'Glory Story'. You can see and feel the violent undercurrents which probabqlay made him volitile as a Youth, and certianly makes him Highly dangerous as a potential President.
McCain ain't right in the Head (Poss.He has never been)

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GUANTANAMO WILL NEVER GO AWAY
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Posted by: VZEQICVA on Oct 28, 2008 7:29 AM   
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It's a blight on our history. It will be closed but the stories will be told for years to come. The U.S. is still holding about 20 thousand prisoners in Iraq for reasons that are unclear. About 4 million Iraqis are displaced, some for 4 years. I don't know how Bush defines "Success" but this can't possibly be a winning strategy. As for the surge, I have my doubts. All due respect to Petraeus, there were events that happened simultaneously along with the surge that contributed to the decrease in violence. There are no single events in a war of this kind. And no official "end". Just a gradual decrease in fighting and on more human terms, people getting tired of it all. Re-building is beyond anything I can imagine. Drinking water and electricity seem like a good place to start. The invasion of Iraq was loaded with unintended consequences which no one considered. So from Guantanamo (Cuba) to Baghdad and beyond millions of people have grown to hate us. Their children are growing up with no one to blame for their miserable lives but us. Guantanamo is a start, but I have a gut feeling that many Americans feel no sense of responsibilty to repair the damage we've done. After all, it's about the great Global War on Terror, which lately seems like an idea out of Hollywood. So gather the lawyers and get to the business of making Guantanamo history. Thanks, ANNA

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No big deal.....
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Posted by: Beepath on Oct 29, 2008 6:21 PM   
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Dude will just go to work with the other monsters at Blackwater. His is just the kind of talent Blackwater covets. Men like this one are always thinking ahead...how great this will look on a resume to be proud of! What a guy! Look at him...lives on the dole with the government, knowing full well that he doesn't answer to the American people. Yeah, he's what Jackson Browne is referring to when he sings about the "men in the shadows."

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Military probing itself?
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Posted by: willymack on Oct 29, 2008 10:08 PM   
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Don't make me laugh. That's like saying OJ is hot on the trail of his wife's real killer.

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