Adviser Barred From Detainee Case Over Bias Concerns

The Pentagon's top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions was disqualified late last week from participating in the prosecution of a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by a Navy officer who ruled that the adviser exerted improper influence over a team of prosecutors and may have...
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Josh White

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Thomas Hartmann

Salim Ahmed Hamdan

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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed

J.D. Gordon

Keith Allred

U.S. Department of Defense

The Pentagon

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Guantanamo Bay

Military and Defense Policy

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