Critics of tribunals gain unlikely allies: lawyers in uniform


By JESS BRAVIN
The Associated Press
3/18/04 8:22 AM

The Wall Street Journal

The five JAGs -- as members of the Judge Advocate General's Corps, the military's legal arm, are known -- have attacked the tribunals as inherently unfair, contrary to international law and susceptible to political influence. In a brief they submitted to the Supreme Court, Cmdr. Swift wrote a section comparing the president with King George III and likening the treatment of tribunal defendants to the injustices that helped spark the American Revolution.