Via the Military Times, something crazy going on down in Guantanamo Bay.
A Marine brigadier general in charge of war court defense teams faces 21 days of confinement after being found guilty of contempt of court by an Air Force colonel for refusing to testify about releasing three civilian attorneys from the defense team for the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing for a secret ethics conflict involving attorney-client privilege.
Brig. Gen. John Baker has refused to testify or return lawyers to the case, attempting to tell the judge, Col. Vance Spath, that the war court’s attempt to try alleged terrorists who are not U.S. citizens had no jurisdiction over him, originally reported by the Miami Herald.
Spath ruled that Baker’s decision to release the three civilian, Pentagon-paid attorneys from the case was “null and void” and ordered the three to testify before him either in person or video feed next week.
The USS Cole bombing in October 2000 resulted in 17 sailors being killed and 39 injured when a small, fiberglass boat piloted by two suicide bombers exploded near the hull of the ship as it was refueling at the Aden harbor in Yemen.
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