Actually, that’s former Lt. Commander, Williams having resigned his duties as a Navy JAG in protest of the Bush administration’s pro-torture policies.
The trigger, Williams said in an interview, was a statement by Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartman, chief legal adviser at the Pentagon’s Office of Military Commissions. Asked how the “uniformed legal community” should respond if Iran waterboarded a U.S. soldier to learn about possible attacks on us, Hartman’s response was “I am not prepared to answer that question.”
Williams said if the military couldn’t condemn waterboarding as unacceptable, he had to resign on principle.
While I’m at it, I’d also like to salute the many JAGs and officials who’ve protested, fought and struggled to make military tribunals for alleged terrorists as fair as possible, and cried foul when they weren’t. I know plenty of people in this oh-so-conservative area consider them stinking filthy traitors for not accepting that anyone Glorious Supreme Leader Bush’s government designates a terrorist is guilty, but I’m proud to live in the same country as such honorable, decent soldiers.

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