Live From GTMO, It’s… David Iglesias?

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Live From GTMO, It’s… David Iglesias?
By: Spencer Ackerman Monday April 26, 2010 6:58 pm	Tweet4

GUANTANAMO BAY — I know, right? I was pretty surprised this morning when a frazzled guy who’d been at an Andrews Air Force Base terminal for way too long asked if I wouldn’t mind letting him cut in line now that he finished getting some nettlesome bureaucratic burden out of the way of his travel. Wait, I thought, you look familiar…

Indeed, it turned out the guy was David Iglesias, the one-time U.S. Attorney for New Mexico whom the Bush administration axed for being insufficiently attentive to the prerogatives of the Republican Party. Now Iglesias, a reservist Navy captain, is a prosecutor for the mark-2010 military commissions, and he gave something of an impromptu press briefing about an hour ago about procedures in the still-being-defined proceedings. Check it out.

Also? This place is just as hot as I remember. More soon. I’m trying to chop up and file some video, and then it’s food-and-alcohol time.

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3 Responses to “Live From GTMO, It’s… David Iglesias?”

Jeff Kaye April 26th, 2010 at 10:07 pm

Thanks, Spencer, for this coverage, and for asking the question (readers, see the Wash Independent story):

I asked Iglesias if the absence of a manual instructing officers of the court how to interpret the Military Commissions Act of 2009 — the statute governing this latest version of the commissions — would negatively impact Khadr’s hearing. ”We expect the impact to be negligible right now,” Iglesias said, contending that the Act itself provides sufficient guidance for the case to proceed. “That being said,” he continued, “both sides expect there to be rules assigned very, very soon.”

We can thank powwow over at Emptywheel for a comment covering the new MCA law, w/plenty of info.

Iglesias has got to make a living, I suppose. But being a shill for the military ain’t much better than being a shill for DoJ. A few good men, indeed.