The situation at Guantanamo Bay is deplorable. The Guardian reports that a military lawyer has had enough and will be testifying before the US Supreme Court on December 5th.
The whistleblower, an army major inside the military court system which the United States has established at Guantanamo Bay, has described the detention of one prisoner, a hospital administrator from Sudan, as “unconscionable”.
His critique will be the centrepiece of a hearing on 5 December before the US Supreme Court when another attempt is made to shut the prison down. So nervous is the Bush administration of the latest attack – and another Supreme Court ruling against it – that it is preparing a whole new system of military courts to deal with those still imprisoned.
Nice response…a workaround.
I would just like to point out that whistleblowers take action knowing it will result in tremendous personal costs. Their level of disgust in the face of evil must become unbearable, so that exposing the evil actually feels better than losing their jobs, friends, colleagues and putting themselves and their families at risk. We owe them our gratitude. We owe them at least to pay attention to the problems they’ve exposed.
