GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - A Pentagon legal adviser accused of improperly influencing the Guantanamo war crimes prosecutions dictated which cases would be tried based on how likely they were to pique U.S. public interest, a prosecutor testified on Tuesday.
The prosecutor, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Stone, said in a sworn statement that the government-appointed lawyer, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, explained his selections this way:
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