On Friday, TPMmuckraker reported on an affidavit from Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Abraham, an Army reserve intelligence officer, that suggests widespread flaws in the process of classifying a detainee as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay. Abraham was replying to his former boss at the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants, Rear Admiral James McGarrah, who testified last month that there was no significant problem with the military process, known as a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. Last week, Abraham accused McGarrah of knocking him off the CSRTs after he argued that a certain detainee shouldn’t be considered an an enemy combatant. TPMmuckraker has Abraham’s declaration here and McGarrah’s here.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180546