A Gitmo Prosecutor's Act of Conscience [View All]

Source: CBS News

One of the youngest detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison is expected to be returned this weekend to Afghanistan where he was arrested seven years ago for allegedly throwing a grenade at American soldiers.

Mohammed Jawad's break came when a U.S. military lawyer made a choice - to follow his conscience, as CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan reports.

Reserve Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld could not keep silent. As he put it, "Silence in the face of evil is collaboration with evil."

Vandeveld was a military prosecutor at Guantanamo - until he decided to speak against the corruption of justice he found there.

"Our fighting men and women who've been putting themselves in harms - They're not fighting for rigged, kangaroo trials," Vandeveld said.



Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/22/eveningnews/main5259681.shtml?tag=stack

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:patriot: to Lt. Col Vandeveld for being willing to open your eyes to see the truth and act on it.