Looks like there’s another seat opening up in the Pentagon:
The Pentagon’s top detainee affairs policy appointee has quit the Defense Department just seven months into the job, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
Phillip Carter, a former Army captain and Iraq War veteran, had been an outspoken critic of Bush-era war on terror detention policy as an attorney and blogging commentator.
He got the job of U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs in April, months after President Barack Obama pledged to empty the detention center at Guantánamo. He quit without explanation just days after Obama confirmed in an interview with Fox News in Beijing that his administration would miss its Jan. 22 Guantánamo closure deadline.
The development apparently took the Department of Defense by surprise.
Yeah, it was always going to be harder than it looked from the outside.
“If at first you don’t succeed, give up.” — Homer Simpson
Update: Glen Greenwald(s) conjectures that this is a purity of essence move, while Noah Shactman says that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Don’t let the door hit you…..
Hope his replacement is not another radical leftist.
John, John, John,
Haven’t you seen enough yet? Hope? Boy are you an incorrigible optimist!
“If at first you don’t succeed, give up.” — Homer Simpson
Ouch!
Actually I think the most relevant Homer Simpson quote that applies to just about everything in this juvenile administration is…
“Marge, don’t discourage the boy! Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It’s what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.”
I think we should be thankfull and at a minimum praise the Lord/Allah that this disgruntled Silly Affairs vet didn’t shoot up the Pentagon as a parting gesture. Best
This guy will be back, and soon, as a Democrat candidate for Congress or some such. It’s all there, you just have to look to see it.
Did he go flouncing out the door with a pout on his face? I want to see pouty, petulant flouncing. I do. I do. I do!
Phillip Carter used to run a blog called “Intel Dump”, that was very well written (not sure if Lex is aware of his fellow mil-bloggers). Phillip is a smart guy, I’m sure there’s a plan here. We’ll hear his side of the story soon enough.
His plan is continuing to be the lying, weasel-d!ck crapweasel that he’s always been.
See here for furthers.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=15801
..as it so happens, i could probably free myself up from current work commitments if my phone were to ring with an offer to come down there and show them the right way to do it this time. just sayin’