A U.S. general was send to prison in the past week, and it didn't even ripple the news much. The story didn't get much play. Marine Brigadier General John Baker was sent to prison in Guantanamo Bay for standing up for lawyers in the USS Cole bombing case.
The lawyers were allegedly placed under surveillance simply because they were representing the USS Cole bomber. In protest, the lawyers quit, but the military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, rejected their resignations.
Baker, as chief defense counsel in military commissions, sided with the lawyers right to resign, and, for that, Spath on Wednesday sentenced him to 21 days in prison.
Another military judge stepped in, freeing Brigadier General Baker from serving much of the sentence, but one has to wonder at what happened. In a land of freedom and a land where injustice is shielded against, was Baker's imprisonment just?
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