Guantanamo adviser barred
12/5/08
The Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions has been disqualified from participating in the prosecution of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A naval officer ruled late last week that the adviser exerted improper influence over a team of prosecutors and may have compromised the case’s fairness. Captain Keith Allred, who is presiding over hearings in preparation for the military’s trial of an alleged driver for Osama bin Laden, determined that air force Brigadier-General Thomas Hartmann was too closely tied to prosecutors. He is supposed to be a neutral adviser to the official directing the commissions.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/guantanamo-adviser-barred/2008/05/11/1210444240345.html