Last spring, a group of military lawyers known as judge advocate generals warned that civilian lawyers within the Bush administration were creating “legal ambiguity” on how international treaties should be applied to people in U.S. detention. Many JAG lawyers say their advice was disregarded as the White House sought to tweak the laws of war for political ends.
I’m betting that in spite of the custom-made angle, this won’t show up as a “ripped from the headlines” episode on JAG because it’s not very complimentary to the current administration (okay, the usurping administration, I’m annoying like that).
But “boo-yah” to the real-life JAGs, for doing their duty to the administration they’re sworn to uphold. They tried.
