A federal court dealt a major blow to the Guantanamo Bay military commissions Tuesday, throwing out more than three years of proceedings in the case against the alleged mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. A year into his involvement in the case, Spath meanwhile quietly applied to the Justice Department for a position as an immigration judge. Circuit case, said the opinion revealed the judges’ frustration “that the system is cavalier about such basic roles and so broken as a consequence. Such a move would strike an even more massive blow to the military justice architecture of the post-9/11 era. Spath’s successor on the military court also left to become an immigration judge.

Source: Washington Post April 16, 2019 22:41 UTC