The judge in the USS Cole terrorism case ordered prosecutors Tuesday to draft warrants instructing U.S. Marshals to seize two civilian defense attorneys who have quit the case and ignored his orders and a subpoena to appear at the war court.Presumably the lawyers in question will be in federal court today, unless they already are there.
Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, said he would sign the “writs of attachment” on Wednesday and cautioned from the bench that the lawyer for Pentagon-paid attorneys Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears should hustle to federal court, if the lawyer wants to stop what are essentially arrest warrants.
Meanwhile, there has still been no official word on why the military commissions' civilian convening authority and his legal advisor were fired. Military law experts have been mulling whether the firings were unlawful under the command influence provision of the Military Commissions Act.
Things do seem to be flying out of control.
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