WTFF?

TD law school classmate Harvey Rishikoff has just been summarily sacked as the Guantanamo “convening authority” (i.e. civilian official in charge of the military commissions).
Mr. Rishikoff had intervened to stop the absurd “contempt” jailing of the chief defense attorney for the (absurd) Guantanamo military commissions, and tried to have a new facility built because of accusations that defense attorney-client conversations were monitored at existing facilities … anyway, now that the President has reversed the last President’s executive order to close Guantanamo, it seems open season on reason, and so, Harvey is out, as is another Pentagon official associated with the military commissions named Gary Brown.
The commissions, of course, are an absurdity, whose sole purpose is to whitewash American torture of prisoners in the years following September 11th, while still trying to use “evidence” obtained as a result of that torture. Most prisoners at Guantanamo will never face charges of any kind, of course, even as this President insists that they will never be released if he has anything to do with it.
Damned if I can figure out any of this.
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