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Did Swiftboating Take Down Hamdan's Navy Defense Attorney?
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What a coincidence! The Navy lawyer who led a successful Supreme Court challenge of the Bush administration's military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees has been passed over for promotion and will have to leave the military.
Detainee's lawyer out of job after win
Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, 44, will retire in March or April under the military's "up or out" promotion system.Swift said last week he was notified he would not be promoted to full-blown Navy commander. He said the notification came about two weeks after the Supreme Court sided with him and against the White House in the case involving Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a Yemeni and alleged al Qaeda member who was Osama bin Laden's driver.
"Charlie has obviously done an exceptional job, a really extraordinary job," said Marine Col. Dwight Sullivan, the Pentagon's chief defense counsel for Military Commissions.
Sullivan added it was "quite a coincidence" that Swift was passed over for a promotion "within two weeks of the Supreme Court opinion."
The coincidental "firing" of Lt. Cmdr. Swift could be a variation of the swiftboating political strategy during the 2004 presidential campaign. It is hard to imagine what terrible evils were ascribed to Swift in his official Navy review.
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