The Air Force lawyer who quit as chief prosecutor for the Guantanamo Bay war court five months ago because of what he called political interference has asked to leave the U.S. military, he said. Col. Morris D. Davis said he submitted retirement papers last week, because of fallout from his criticism of the Guantanamo court and because of family concerns.
I haven't been able to determine what exactly his "family concerns" entail. The political interference you may remember came when the White House put him under the command of a torture-proponent who is a "close ally" of Dick Cheney, and Davis was refusing to use testimony gained under torture. Davis also said that the Pentagon was pressuring for "sexy" high-profile convictions rather than allowing the cases to be properly researched and tried, in time to hopefully sway the 2008 elections.
I'm going to guess (again - I do that often enough) that Col. Davis has been under some pretty heavy pressure from both the White House and the Pentagon. Somehow it is also affecting his family.
What will they require of him to let him go?
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