The one good man who brought down Guantanamo(

The Telegraph ^ | 02/07/2006 | Philip Sherwell

[managusta]

The face of treason.

[bnelson44]

Last I looked Guantanamo is still there and will be for the forseable future.

[gotribe]

...And many of the prisoners will be tried and executed. The supreme court ruling was procedural and Bush will win in the end.

[jimfree]

The defense counsel was doing his job. Some justices clearly were not.

[at bay]

So Congress has to authorize the tribunals. They will after break. He's an attorney, he mounted a defense. Who is this poster to call a naval officer treasonous for that?

[MizSterious]

"We believe in common decency, fairness and the rule of law. Our opponents don't."

That's the kind of reasoning that could lose the WOT for us. They laugh--no, make that sneer--at our decency and fairness, and use our own "rule of law" against us.

[kms61]

he was assigned a case as part of his regular duty, and he did his job. That doesn't make him guilty of treason.

[bnelson44]

It wasn't treason. Don't know who did it, but they don't know what they are talking about.

[piytar]

"So Congress has to authorize the tribunals. They will after break. He's an attorney, he mounted a defense. Who is this poster to call a naval officer treasonous for that?"

Well said. I don't blame him, I blame the 5 Supremes who made this ruling...

[Lancey Howard]

Last I looked Guantanamo is still there and will be for the forseable future.

Yup. George W. Bush is Commander-in-Chief and the Supreme Court hasn't changed a thing. So, two CO-EQUAL branches of government disagree on something - - oh well. Can you imagine how disappointing it would be if Dubya caved to a bunch of scumbags in black robes and ceded control of Executive branch powers to them? I don't see it happening.

[Lancey Howard]

Lt Cdr Swift, a 19-year US Navy veteran, could not hide his elation as he walked down the marble steps of the Supreme Court in full uniform on Thursday after the ruling

I agree with the three of you that there was certainly no treason. This guy's "elation" makes him a simple scumbag, that's all.

[Lord Basil]

I agree, the officer did his duty. Based on the "reasoning" behind the verdict, it appears the result wasn't as much due to his legal skills as the 5 justices who were determined to create the outcome they wanted.

[Txsleuth]

I got the impression that the decision COULD keep Hamdan in Gitmo or elsewhere indefinitely...THAT doesn't sound like a victory for him at all..

[PISANO]

I will not try to look into this Officer's heart, but I do KNOW one thing, we NEED to significantly REDUCE the influence lawyers have on today's modern warfare. We need to let battlefield commanders run the war, rather than asking for a legal opinion before they make ANY TACTICAL decision.

[sinkspur]

Swift was on C-SPAN this morning, and he's anything but.

His liberal leanings were apparent, especially when he said he actually "liked" Hamdan, and went to Yemen to visit his friggin' family!

He seemed rather effiminate in his mannerisms and used "you know" in every other phrase.

[yield 2 the right]

I bet that this will be in some form on an episode on CBS' "NCIS"...........or if not on of the NBC's "Law and Order"s shows.............

[Chode]

wonderful... i think i'll go throw up my supper now.

[Ken522]

Look at him - his cover's crooked: What's that tell ya?

[Mr Rogers]

Actually, I blame him if he made the absurd arguments that the 5 'I feel; therefor I am' justices used in their opinions.

No one of good conscience could argue the Geneva Conventions apply to these enemy combatants, nor could one argue the law passed by Congress did not apply.

If he made those arguments, he was lying to obtain an end.

[muawiyah]

Not exactly treason ~ it's his job ~ however Lt Cdr Swift seems not to have won anything at all for his client, Hamdan.

In fact, he may very well have done little more than speed the guy on his way to an early execution.