as you point out: the idiocy of flyin-in a lawyer to a warship! Nary an argument there.
Stand corrected. It's difficult sometimes to separate out the minor issues (like this specific one) from the overall ranting both ways: poor misguided innocent / devious SOB. I say - if he's competent, the burden of proof is on him to account (with whatever 'witnesses'? as are possible). But if he's a deranged naif and lost any chance to opt-out and also live, long before 9/11 ??
Any way you slice it he's 'different' for being a Murican citizen - now if they'd offed him (as with bin-L next ??) all the niceties would have disappeared with the breath.
(I just thought you'd like a little chance to empathize with the angst of growin up in a special kind of Murican ghetto.. maybe kinda like Billy? But I see you're just cruel - prolly think he enjoyed it! :(
:-\ufffd