“U.S. Drops Charges Against 5 Detainees”

… reports the New York Times, and the reason just might be that the government’s handling of these very cases in Guantanamo had caused a Catholic prosecutor to quit in protest ten ago. “I no longer want to participate in the system, but I lack the courage to quit. I am married, with children, and not only will they suffer, I’ll lose a lot of friends,” he said then. How many, how many, I wonder. When a Foreign Service ambassador once complained vigorously to me about a policy that he was forced to defend publicly, even though he strongly opposed … Continue reading “U.S. Drops Charges Against 5 Detainees”