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Gee I thought the pledge to support the Constitution of the United State, and all that stuff about defending against foreign and domestic terrorist trumped client/lawyer privilege particularly for Jags.

He must be reading another Constitution than the one I have posted next to my computer.

243 posted on 08/29/2009 11:08:52 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)

"Gee I thought the pledge to support the Constitution of the United State, and all that stuff about defending against foreign and domestic terrorist trumped client/lawyer privilege particularly for Jags."

You thought wrong - very wrong. Which is exactly why a Navy JAG sued Rumsfeld in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, and prevailed in the Supreme Court. Here, a JAG was defending a sworn enemy of the US and it's Constitution in a military tribunal, but that didn't preclude him from providing his best legal counsel possible, in any way.