Morris Davis, an Air Force colonel and the longtime chief prosecutor at Guantanamo, has resigned. He nows says that political appointees in the Bush administration called him on several different occasions and asked that he file charges against detainees at politically useful moments:

"According to Davis, for more than a year Pentagon officials have sought to influence his decisions about 'who we will charge, what we will charge, what evidence we will try to introduce, and how we will conduct a prosecution.' For example, speaking last week to the Wall Street Journal, he explained that in September 2006, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England discussed with him the 'strategic political value' in charging some of the prisoners before the midterm elections."

Whole story here. If we had an opposition party or a functioning Justice Department, this might lead to some serious consequences for some folks.