Couple of thoughts – I always assumed that military judges WERE considered Federal Judges. Is that not correct?

Larry S. I am not a lawyer either (and might not admit it if’n I were) but I believe that double jeopardy only applies if you have been tried and found not guilty. You can be charged, have charges dropped and be charged again. I may be wrong, I often am. Also, if they don’t proceed with the pending trials, that does not mean they have to drop charges, they only have to change venue…

Someone correct me. (My wife isn’t here to do it.)

1st: congratulations to Judge Pohl on his pending retirement in current grade, and thanks for his honorable service.

2nd: much like the captain of a ship at sea, there is nothing quite so close to being sovereign lord of all one surveys as being a judge on his bench. boards of inquiry and appeals courts may feel differently after the fact, but hizzoner is the skipper underway.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said Thursday that Pohl would soon be told to comply with Obama’s executive order.

“All I can really tell you is that this department will be in full compliance with the president’s executive order,” Morrell said at a news briefing. “There is no ifs, ands or buts about that.”

“The president has signed an executive order and that sort of puts all this on hold as we go about and review a number of things related to Gitmo, our detention operations, our interrogation procedures,” he continued.

“And so, while that executive order is in force and effect, trust me that there will be no proceedings continuing down at Gitmo with military commissions,” he added.

Heh…

Someone’s feeling all atwiddle and duckbumps about the era of HopeNChange.