Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Consequences
This is hardly a surprise and certainly is chilling, but it's the cost of patriotism these days:
The Associated Press reported on Sunday: "The Navy lawyer who led a successful Supreme Court challenge of the Bush administration's military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees has been passed over for promotion and will have to leave the military.

"Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, 44, will retire in March or April under the military's 'up or out' promotion system."

From a New York Times editorial this morning: "With his defense of Mr. Hamdan and his testimony before Congress starting in July 2003, Commander Swift did as much as any single individual to expose the awful wrongs of Guantánamo Bay and Mr. Bush's lawless military commissions. It was a valuable public service and a brave act of conscience, and his treatment is deeply troubling. . . .
It's really no wonder that there is a brewing mutiny within the Pentagon. People lives are being ruined ... wholesale ... because of Little Lord Fauntleroy.

I really do get tired of reading and writing about such stories. There seems to be an unlimited resource of incompetence, idiocy and mendacity from within the Bush administration. This period of time, equally on par with either of the past "red scares", is the greatest test of the Constitution to date. We'll see if the country rights itself.
Written at 9:24 AM by Greyhair.
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