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Semper Fidelis: Guantanamo and The Ethical Dilemma of Gen. John Baker

A law professor sorts out the issues in the Gen. Baker case at GITMO.

On November 1, at Guantanamo Bay, an Air Force colonel sentenced a Marine general to 21 days confinement and $1000 fine. Both the colonel and the general are jurists with different roles in the trial of a suspected al-Qaeda mass murderer. Which of the two senior officers is in the right? That’s what this column will endeavor to elucidate.

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