DoD Withdraws Order Requiring MiliComms Judges to Live at GTMO

Wells Bennett
Friday, February 27, 2015, 12:25 PM
That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg.  I reckon this will mean the 9/11 case will be swiftly unpaused.  From Rosenberg's piece:
In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an order to war court judges to take up residence at this remote base, the Miami Herald has learned. The order has stirred controversy since Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work adopted it Jan. 7.
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That's the word from the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg.  I reckon this will mean the 9/11 case will be swiftly unpaused.  From Rosenberg's piece:
In an abrupt retreat Friday, the Pentagon withdrew an order to war court judges to take up residence at this remote base, the Miami Herald has learned. The order has stirred controversy since Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work adopted it Jan. 7. The military judge in the Sept. 11 case halted the proceedings this week and ruled that the move-in order appeared to constitute improper pressure on the judiciary to speed justice along. That judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, abated the prosecution of the alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other accused 9/l1 conspirators until the Pentagon reversed course — or he adopted his own unspecified remedy. A Pentagon spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Myles B. Caggins III, would not confirm the development. But several attorneys said they were notified of the about-face on Friday morning.
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Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
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