This won't surprise you at all:

By Carol Rosenberg
NEWARK, N.J. - The Navy lawyer who took the Guantanamo case of Osama bin Laden's driver to the U.S. Supreme Court - and won - has been passed over for promotion by the Pentagon and must soon leave the military.

Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, 44, said last week he received word that he had been denied a promotion to full-blown Navy commander this summer - "about two weeks after" the Supreme Court sided against the White House and with his client, a Yemeni captive at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.

Once again, I must bow to the superior and godlike abilities of the master wordsmith who is Chris:

And the Stevens decision would indeed be a landmark ruling, a return to sanity – if we were still in an era where the institutions of American government and society were actually functional, and office-holders felt bound by law. But if there is no political will in the American establishment to enforce the ruling – to make it mean what it manifestly says – then it will be nothing more than a pretty ornament for the Republic's coffin.

And where does that will exist? Not in Congress, not in the media, not in the streets – and certainly not in the confused, craven Democratic opposition. Yet the true nature of the Regime's wide-ranging war on liberty has been glaringly obvious for years. I've been writing about Bush's power grab in the Moscow Times and elsewhere since November 2001, when I noted that he had given himself the right to order the killing or incarceration of anyone on earth whom he arbitrarily deemed a terrorist – or even a terrorist suspect. This was reported openly at the time, with approval from the gung-ho corporate media and the American political establishment, with record-breaking poll numbers for Bush – and nary a peep from the Democrats. The first press reports of tortured captives quickly followed, again without controversy.