Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks' lawyer risks career by Lawblogs

Guantanamo Bay lawyers say they find their tactics and motives being questioned as they perform their legal duties and provide a vigorous defense in the first U.S. military war crimes trials since World War II.
Army Maj. Tom Fleener, who has represented a Guantanamo detainee before the military commissions, said the attorneys believe any legal victories could come at a steep cost.
"We all took these jobs recognizing that we're not likely going to be promoted and given good assignments by the military," Fleener said. "What we never expected was to face either criminal sanctions or ethical sanctions for doing our jobs."
The threat of such sanctions emerged in a recent e-mail that the chief military prosecutor, Air Force Col. Morris Davis, sent to the judge in charge of the military commissions.
Davis alleged that Marine Corps Maj. Michael Mori, who represents Australian detainee David Hicks, may have violated the Uniform Code of Military Justice by using what Davis deemed "contemptuous words" against President Bush and other U.S. officials.
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