Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift

Christy Hardin Smith writes at Firedoglake of a true American patriot, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift.

As a reward for doing his job well, for upholding and defending the Constitution and the rule of law, and for diligently representing his client, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift has been denied promotion by the US Navy, effectively ending his career in the military.

It's just too bad that in George Bush and Don Rumsfeld's Pentagon, doing your job superbly and being committed to truth and the Constitution over political expediency gets you cashiered out of the service. The Navy and the JAG corps will be the lesser for it. For shame.