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2007-05-18 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2007-05-18 10:54|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Time to bring back the practices of keelhauling and hanging from the yardarm...

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2007-05-18 11:20|| 2007-05-18 11:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Personally, I prefer keelraking. In keelhauling, the perp is pulled from port to starboard. In keelraking, the perp is pulled from fore to aft.
In the days of sailing ships, people sometimes survived keelhauling, although they usually died later of infection from rubbin up against the barnacles on the hull. Keelraking was a much longer trip, and the perp was almost certain to drown.
In modern ships, of course, the perp would get dragged through the screws and turned into chum.

Posted by Rambler">Rambler 2007-05-18 11:37|| 2007-05-18 11:37|| Front Page Top

#3 NORFOLK, Va. A Navy lawyer who gave a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees was convicted in military court Thursday of communicating secret information that could be used to injure the United States.

Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Diaz also was convicted of three counts of leaking information to an unauthorized person, but was acquitted of printing out national defense information with the intent or reason to believe it would be used against the U.S. A sentencing hearing was to begin Friday for Diaz, who could receive up to 14 years in prison.

Posted by Steve 2007-05-18 12:00|| 2007-05-18 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Two days before a Navy lawyer allegedly mailed a list of Guantánamo captives' names to a New York human rights group he signed a military form agreeing not to disclose ''any government information,''

Sounds like a pretty stupid lawyer.

Posted by tu3031 2007-05-18 12:09|| 2007-05-18 12:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Yep. Presumably, he didn't expect CCR to tattle.

Posted by exJAG 2007-05-18 13:13|| 2007-05-18 13:13|| Front Page Top

#6 We don't need lawyers. We have a Joint Congress full of them what has it got us? Hang this bastard as an example to the rest of them.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-05-18 13:15|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2007-05-18 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 With foreknowledge and premeditated intent. No time off for good behavior.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-18 15:58|| 2007-05-18 15:58|| Front Page Top

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