US Fires Guantanamo Defense Team

[Theophylact]

In a story apparently not covered by any American news media, we learn that

A team of military lawyers recruited to defend alleged terrorists held by the US at Guantanamo Bay was dismissed by the Pentagon after some of its members rebelled against the unfair way the trials have been designed, the Guardian has learned.

And some members of the new legal defence team remain deeply unhappy with the trials - known as "military commissions" - believing them to be slanted towards the prosecution and an affront to modern US military justice.

That's the Bush administration for you: Hire a bunch of lawyers to do something; they tell you what you're doing is wrong; and instead of stopping doing what's wrong, you fire the lawyers.

No, that's government for you.

[M_Six]

Yep, and the guardian Jeb Bush appointed to determine the likelihood of Theresa Schiavo recovering told him she would never recover. Now he wants to appoint another guardian.

Talk about shooting the messenger?

[RayH]

Keep the dead alive and kill the living!