Interesting Personal Note on the Abu Ghraib Trials

The Army has assigned Major Mike Holley, probably its best prosecutor, to the Abu Ghraib case. I should know. I supervised Mike during my last year in Korea, and he’s unquestionably the best courtroom attorney I’ve ever seen, myself included. The Army pulled Mike out of a plum assignment as a Criminal Law Instructor at the JAG School in Charlottesville, Virginia and sent him to Iraq to try these cases (I’d add that Mike has a very large family). Consider that fact if you wonder if the United States takes Abu Ghraib seriously.