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Gitmo Military Prosecutor Breaks His Silence

Video Report From The BBC

Former Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a former U.S. prosecutor at Guantanamo, told BBC yesterday in his first interview since resigning earlier this year that Guantanamo detainees were treated in a "wrong, unethical and finally, immoral" manner. Watch BBC's segment.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21425.htm

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Is the army forcing out a Gitmo whistleblower?

Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman

05/31/10

For an Army officer, criticizing the military commissions at Guantanamo as a perversion of justice probably isn’t the best career move. That goes double if you also happen to be a former top military prosecutor at Gitmo. That’s why Lt. Colonel Darrel Vandeveld, a US army reservist with nearly 20 years of service under his belt, fears the worst when a military promotion board renders its decision in his case this week. Theoretically, the military brass reviewing his record could reward his distinguished service — to which various awards and commendations attest — and bump him up to full-bird colonel. Or, they could derail his military career. Vandeveld has reason to believe the board may attempt the latter — forcing into retirement the officer who, in a July 2009 congressional hearing, declared that ‘the military commission system is broken beyond repair’...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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