‘Sexy’ terror cases pushed
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Jane Sutton; 1/5/08
A Pentagon legal adviser accused of improperly influencing Guantanamo Bay prosecutions dictated which cases would be tried, based on the possibility that they would pique US public interest. Army prosecutor Lieutenant-Colonel William Britt said in a sworn statement that the lawyer, US Air Force Brigadier-General Thomas Hartmann, explained his selections this way: “This case is going to seize the imagination of the American public and that case won’t.” Colonel Britt’s statement came a day after the former chief prosecutor, US Air Force Colonel Moe Davis, testified that the Guantanamo court set up to try terrorism suspects had been tainted by politics and improper influence from senior officials.
