Army prosecutor says punished for truth

WASHINGTON, May 29 (UPI) -- The former chief military prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says the U.S. Defense Department punished him for telling the truth.

Air Force Col. Morris Davis testified that he faced political pressure to speed up cases and to use evidence derived from torture, the Washington Post said Thursday.

Davis said he was denied a medal for his two years of work building military commissions cases against terrorism suspects because he resigned and later spoke out about problems in the Pentagon's Office of Military Commissions. He was told by the Pentagon he did "not serve honorably," he said.

"I tell the truth, and I get labeled as having served dishonorably," Davis said in an interview, talking about the fear of reprisals before his retirement later this year.