Not sure how can you screw up that assignment, basically overseeing 40 caged men. Must have been stealing something.
Must have been stealing something
With Dump that would be a positive
Is this new? Do Republicans know this kind of thing is going on?
the safe, humane, legal care and custody provided to the detainee population
Was this the guy in charge of sprucing things up in the soon-to-be Trump Wing?
It’s almost impossible to see this news and not think of this article at Defense One, in which Admiral Ring discusses his legal responsibilities in offering medical care to detainees. Like, literally I recognized the man’s name because I read the article this morning.
Perhaps he wasn’t all that in on the torturey thing and made a fuss over the immigrant kids.
Somebody was obviously complaining about him to higher-ups. The big questions are who and why.
Based on this then I assume he was fired beacuse he was being too kind or helpful to the prisoners. I suspect Miller or Trump found out and ordered the firing from on high.
Wish he would’ve ordered a code red on Drumph before he left.
Maybe he opposed “hosting” the separated immigrant children in his facilities.
I don’t think we should assume that he did something generally recognized as “wrong.” He might have just been late with the weekly hymn of praise to his Commander in Chief. He also presided over no deaths or riots, which, I’m guessing, goes against the Trump mission statement.
Read the weekend NYT article on the implications for US obligations to care for Guantanamo prisoners for life as most of these will never be tried and adjudicated. Certainly Stephen Miller would object to the humanitarian aid needed.
Did he say, “You want the truth? You can’t handle the truth!”?
Why did this happen? Was he too humane to the prisoners?
An article in Defense One occurs on Friday and he is summarily fired on Saturday??
Please follow up.
Who knows why. Sure, maybe something bureaucratic like stealing and too rowdy partying off base, or too much staff turnover. But what comes to mind first for me is too much more than the usual ill treatment of inmates, which threatens to blow up in the U.S. government’s face.
A local TV reporter in Raleigh NC, who was visiting Guantanamo last week,
reported that the former commander is planning on retiring to San Diego in June. His concern for inmates care at Gitmo may have caught the the Commander in Chief’s attention.
“will not interrupt the safe, humane, legal care and custody provided to the detainee population at GTMO.”
That’s only because it’s impossible to interrupt something that isn’t happening in the first place.
That article doesn’t make Ring sound incompetent. And it notes at the end that he was deployed there last year and was already going to be leaving the post in June. Firing him a month before he would have left the post sounds a lot like a retributive move with Trump or Miller’s fingerprints all over it. Just a few days after he gave an interview where he talked about the need to provide care for detainees equivalent to what US troops get…yeah. Can’t be a coincidence.
I had the same reaction, though I think I caught it in an equivalent NYT article on my phone. Hard to figure, with the timing, that they’re not related.