Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

February 29, 2008

In a New York Times opinion column published last June, Air Force Colonel Morris D. Davis, chief prosecutor for the Pentagon?s Office of Military Commissions, defended those tribunals as ?a fair process to adjudicate the guilt or innocence [of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay].?

He expressed a sharply different perspective when he resigned last October. Just months after extolling the fairness of military commissions, Davis described how the Pentagon was planning to use them to hold dramatic show trials this year to influence the election.

The administration recently announced plans to try and execute several detainees. Davis has offered to serve as a defense witness in one of the trials as a way of exposing what he now calls a rigged system. Davis recalls being told by a Pentagon superior that ?We can?t have acquittals, we?ve got to have convictions.?

To his credit, Col. Davis, an architect of that system, may play a key role in demolishing it.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.