Fascist
Judge Convicts US Marine General For Defending Gito Detainees’ Rights
Fascist Judge Convicts US Marine
General For Defending Gito Detainees’ Rights
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gitmo-judge-convicts-us-generalbecause-he-stood-up-for-detainee-rights
Gitmo Judge Convicts U.S.
General—Because He Stood Up for Detainee Rights
Brigadier
General John Baker protested the government’s surveillance of Guantanamo Bay
defense lawyers. And that got him sentenced to 21 days in confinement.
11.01.17
5:56 PM ET
The Guantanamo
Bay military tribunals on Wednesday won their first conviction without
a plea deal since 2008. Only it wasn’t a terrorist who was convicted – it was a
one-star Marine general sticking up for the rights of the accused to have a
fair trial.
In
defending the principle that attorneys ought to be able to defend their clients
free from government surveillance, Brigadier General John Baker was ruled in
contempt of court and sentenced to 21 days in confinement. He also must pay a
$1000 fine.
Baker
is a senior officer within in the highly controversial military commissions
process: the Chief of Defense Counsel. Maj. Ben Sakrisson, the Pentagon
spokesman for detentions, confirmed that Baker is being confined in his
quarters – at Guantanamo Bay.
“The
military commissions are willing to put people in jail for defending the rule
of law,” Jay Connell, who represents another Guantanamo detainee facing a
military commission, told The Daily Beast. “If they’re willing to put a Marine
general in jail for standing up for a client’s rights, they’re willing to do
just anything.”
Baker’s
sentence Wednesday was first
reported by Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, the
only reporter actually at Guantanamo and who saw the hearing. He outranks the
judge who sentenced him, Air Force Colonel Vance Spath.
The
shocking development at Guantanamo, described as a “national
disgrace and an embarrassment” by the executive director of the National
Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, came on the same day President Donald
Trump publicly mulled detaining
accused New York terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov at Guantanamo. (As a lawful
permanent resident, Saipov is likely ineligible for a war-crimes trial under
the 2009 Military Commission Act, which specified the court is for
non-Americans, even if the Pentagon decided his alleged acts rose to the level
of a war crime.)
The
path that led to Baker’s contempt confinement started with a group resignation
and a clash with Spath.
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