Military lawyers stay unbridled, White House drops veto bid on promotions

[maddezmom]

Source: Boston Globe

Military lawyers stay unbridled
White House drops veto bid on promotions
Email|Print| Text size – + By Charlie Savage
Globe Staff / December 19, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is dropping a plan to take control over the promotions of military lawyers, following an outpouring of alarm over the independence of uniformed attorneys who have repeatedly objected to the White House's policies toward prisoners in the war on terrorism.

more stories like thisUnder the proposal, first reported by the Globe on Saturday, politically appointed lawyers in the Pentagon would have gained the power to veto the appointment or promotion of any member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, the military's 4,000-member uniformed legal officers group.

Retired JAGs loudly objected to the proposal, which they characterized as an attempt to politicize the corps of military lawyers by allowing the administration to block the advancement of officers considered likely to speak up if they thought the White House had issued an illegal order to the military.

Geoff Morrell, Pentagon press secretary, said William "Jim" Haynes, the Defense Department's general counsel, decided on Monday to shelve the idea. Morell said the military services' legal departments had also expressed concern about the proposal in internal Pentagon reviews.



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[mediaman007]

1. Ah yes, shelve it for the future... don't drop it

They will just find a way to weasel it in another time. The only mistake was getting caught.

[Kokonoe]

2. At the time executive power is being rolled up from democrats

the proposal was out of step at the present time.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. K&R

[crjudge]

4. Haynes is just another fascist flak

Haynes claims he was only trying to improve the quality of the selection process?! What a fool.

The attempt to stifle dissent is so darned obvious you'd think this bozo and his spokes-creeps would choke on the lies they have to spew to rationalize it. Haynes, no matter where he came from or where he goes after Bush is kicked out of town, Haynes has proven himself to be in step with the Administration in its attempt to spread the cancer of neoconservative executive power to all levels of Federal government. He's a flak, a jerk, and an all too obvious toady.

All of which makes him a perfect Republican.

[VP505]

5. Is there ANYTHING

that Bu$hCo hasn't corrupted and politicized?