10.11.2006

Lt. Cmdr Charles Smith

This is one of the military lawyers charged with representing - yeah, good luck there with the Bushies in office - the Gitmo detainees who, when told the only plea he could enter for a client was "guilty" (yeah, that's the American way, eh?), started the case that led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Bush's military tribunals were illegal.

Today, the brave Lt. Cmdr Smith, sometimes referred to as the hero of Gitmo (Guantanamo Bay), was passed over for promotion and effectively, by the military's option, drummed out of the military altogether.

Nice work, Bushies.