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October 8th, 2006 at 12:35:49	From: Fallaci Admirer
The whole govt is afraid of the Bush team
There is a vast amount of info known about the Bush team. This includes in staff of DOJ perhaps.

October 8th, 2006 at 12:42:38	From: Bobo the Clown
of course
If you oppose the Whitehouse, your career is over, and if you're lucky, you might escape with your life. I'm amazed that this guy even was able to win a case against the WH w/out something dastardly happening to him.

October 8th, 2006 at 12:54:39	From: Guy Fawkes
Tyranny
Any more proof that the election of 2000 was a coup d'etat staged by the GOP through their lackeys in Florida?

October 8th, 2006 at 13:10:18	From: Tom3
This guy SHOULD leave the Navy...
...and get a job with a law firm that is defending Gitmo detainees. I bet they pay him ten times what the Navy's been paying him.

October 8th, 2006 at 13:13:38	From: dahreese
How many more good men will be lost like this?
History repeats itself under the Bush addministration. You can bet this came from the White House! How many careers lost opposing the Bush administration does this make? And not a single damned congressman will say anything about it! Don't we wish we had a government. You don't have to be a blind conservative not to see it, just an ignorant one to deny it.

October 8th, 2006 at 13:21:35	From: MR CLEAN
YOU PUS RUNNENCE OVER
JUST A GLIMPSE INTO THE FILTHY CORRUPT MACHINE.

October 8th, 2006 at 13:44:19	From: Ted
just like corp America these days
Charles Swift should get used to it, because it's the same way in the private sector. This corruption and the example that has been set in Washington for cronyism and crime have poisoned American business, too. Do the right thing and you get fired. Suck ass to get ahead and you get promoted.

October 8th, 2006 at 13:45:56	From: Tom3
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
...in the Chimpy regime. Not only does this guy get an early retirement from the Navy, but Chimpy got Congress to IGNORE the Hamdan ruling and pass an outrageous Torture and Abduction bill. Thats what detention without habeus corpus is...kidnapping by the government. America died last month. Long live the Chimperor!!

October 8th, 2006 at 14:04:16	From: Boudica
I remember Mr. Swift's appearance on C Span. There is something so forthright about this man, he brought credit to the Navy and by extension our nation. This is a brilliant attorney who practiced the law at its best. I am glad to know he will continue his work in private practice, but it grieves me that the military is willing to deprive itself of the service of such a straight arrow, who represents the best of the American ideal.

October 8th, 2006 at 14:14:48	From: sandiegowoman
Lt CDMDR Swift, you are a patriot and we applaud you! Unlike those who were on the promotions board, you can look yourself in the mirror and have a sense of pride. You can sleep peacefully at night! Thank you. Keith Olberman, you should write a public letter stating you are not depressed and have no intention of killing yourself.

October 8th, 2006 at 14:17:06	From:
Maybe under another administration he can become a Navy man again, if he then still wants it. Men like him should not have to leave the service to the nation.

October 8th, 2006 at 14:24:42	From: stomp on that bug
This is the kind of clout one faces when he disagrees with the White House. The White House - the most dangerous entity in the country.

October 8th, 2006 at 14:25:39	From: Billy
Because....
this is a "Free" country......

October 8th, 2006 at 14:32:11	From: Dutchie
This shows how un-Anerican the Repukes are.Seems like we are living in Russia.Anyone voting for Repukes in this election is against America.let's find out where they live.

October 8th, 2006 at 14:45:36	From: Tom3
Anybody voting for Repukes this year...
...is voting for torture, treason and molesting boys. That's the REAL Reperv agenda.

October 8th, 2006 at 15:13:25	From: Otto
So much for Mr Deeds.
This is truly appalling. That someone can have his career ruined for doing the right. It is truly becoming like the Soviet Union.

October 8th, 2006 at 15:28:43	From: Anne
Treason
Evidently The party of Bush regards it as treason to not support them or to block them in any way. I think it is treason for them to USE our military as a branch of their political party,

October 8th, 2006 at 15:29:16	From: American Woman
So much for integrity and American values. Shame on our government.

October 8th, 2006 at 15:47:22	From: johns
It's hard to imagine a better mark on one's performance evaluation as a Navy lawyer than to have a victory in the Supreme Court to your credit. Maybe we should have a closer look at those Navy lawyers that get promoted.

October 8th, 2006 at 16:35:27	From: QUALAR
The bastards gave him the highway when he wouldn't go their way. PRICKS!

October 8th, 2006 at 17:29:35	From: Captain Queege
Truth is anti-promotion and Unlemming like !
Gee doing the Right thing is sure to get one Demoted and ostrasized by the Yellow Spinless Career Climbing kiss ass bunch that pass for Officers and Gentleman, Not even an act of Congress can give Character to these Weasels.

October 8th, 2006 at 17:42:44	From:
So much for integrity and American values. Shame on our gove
Shame on for buying this fairy tale crap

October 8th, 2006 at 17:43:15	From:
How a country drain their brains: Human is a highest form of animal that walked the earth. They become so successful because their brains not just only could function enough for them to get food and immediate survival demandings but they could allow them to think and creating laws to protect the fairness within the group. Which inturn protects their most advantage for survival: Social life. As soon as one tends to ignore the law, using their force to control others, it would damage a real good social life. The most opposite to their will is the intellecture. That's always occure in any society where dictatorship starts to over power the law. First, the intelligents would be ignored and discarded from the society. Then no more understanding for appreciate the power of thinking in a proper or decent way. As, the tendency of discard brains rather than producing and refreshing the source of brains, a society would come closer and closer to the point of it brain drained and returns to its starting point where individual eating other for food. _As soon as all intelligent and good people of a country are discarded. The country starts to head to the direction of self destruction as the lack of the forces of minds or brains.

October 8th, 2006 at 17:45:10	From:
Traditions!!!!!!
This how the occupied media, occupied Captiol hill behaves, havanakilar havanakilar dum di dum dum

October 8th, 2006 at 18:37:28	From:
yep. lost another one
if they kept him in the navy, next he might go after israel or that the army is making navy personel transfer to the army so they can get some sand time. the man is a loose canon. what he should do is go work for elliot the ny prosecutor.

October 8th, 2006 at 22:05:14	From: buzzcut
The upper echelons of the U.S. military are a bunch of fanatical Neocon world donminionists who will usher in an era never ending war if they're not stopped. We should start referring to the U.S. military as "BushCo's Militia" until they come to their collective senses and stop serving this illegitimate fascist regime.

October 8th, 2006 at 22:28:57	From: PrissyPatriot
AmericanHero
Lt. Commander Swift is a credit to all of us-we can point to him and say "there is one fine American." He ran all over Chris Matthews "hardball" with the truth about that case. Shame on the Navy for not standing up for such an outstanding JAG.

October 8th, 2006 at 23:13:21	From: Responsible Conservative
What the heck - a guy who is sustained by a conservative court is passed up for a promotion. The Bushies continue to ransack the treasury and the rid the political arm of the government of competence

October 9th, 2006 at 00:04:50	From:
sandiegowoman you suck

October 9th, 2006 at 05:42:31	From:
Bush's new America at its finest here.... leading by example and all of that..... standards go way way way down when we apply that newly ordered principle in Bush's dictatorship

October 9th, 2006 at 07:12:24	From:
"BushCo's Militia"

October 9th, 2006 at 08:29:51	From:
When all good people was replaced by bad one, the system starts it self-destruction process. It does not need any external force to be colapsed...on it's own feet.

October 9th, 2006 at 09:42:32	From: Independent
DoD has become as incompetent as the administration.
The DoD is not for the defense of America and it's ideals. These people plan for what ever suits the transnational bankers, corporations and contractors. The only greater incompetence than the DoD is this Administration.

October 9th, 2006 at 10:46:03	From: Homo say whaa?
Now that detainees will be tried by military tribunals, it's important to show militarty lawyers what happens to those who mount a successful defense of their clients. Weeding out those that don't get it will insure a high rate of convictions.

October 9th, 2006 at 13:24:33	From: Marmoset
Winning a case at the Supreme Court should be the highlight of any lawyer's career. He just won a trial in the highest court in the land. In most lawfirms, that would mean immediate promotion/reward/etc. Amazing how Swift was treated . . .

October 9th, 2006 at 13:43:27	From:
i am surprised. (communist) Indonesians mass-demonstrated because their govt wanted to reduce their worker rights, rights that we dont even have anymore as workers here. our own govt turned fashist and not a single demonstration for it. what is wrong with all those deaf dumb and blind people, called americans ? NO BALLS i am embarrassed to be an american now.

October 9th, 2006 at 14:01:41	From: CW
BRAVO!
We need more patriots such as Swift who are willing to stand up for American Principals rather than lay down for the status quo and the neocons. BRAVO, and may Swift find a place in society where he can apply his brilliant legal mind to furthering the cause of justice. Maybe someday the Supreme Court???

October 9th, 2006 at 14:18:34	From:
I keep hearing how un-American this is. How wrong you are: It is very American to punish those with whom you disagree and over whom you exercise power. While most of you are willy nilly lambasting the government for killing this guys career in the armed forces, you are missing the bigger picture that Hamdan was even given an attorney in the first instance. The outcome should be the focus of this David and Goliath story, not that a distinguished attorney with a distinguished career was canned. It sucks for him, but I consider his career sacrifice an acceptable trade in helping stave off the erosion our our civil rights as American citizens. You might call him "collateral damage" in this case, and well worht it. I guess you could say that what he did, and what was donr to him, are oh so very American.

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