to jihadist groups? so, bob, this is a fine line that the u.s. has to make. it has to make the decision, what s most important, how critical do you believe, bob, qatar s support for the u.s., for fighting isis, et cetera, is? well, poppy, the problem is we ve turned a blind eye to qatar. right from the beginning. khalid sheikh muhammad. the kataris hit him. they continue to fund all sides. they fund al jazeera, they fund incorrectly, at very least, issy. al qaeda groups all through the middle east and they re funding libya right now. the jihadi groups right there. there s not much we can do about it. they simply say they ll look into it. this is done privately. there s nothing they can do
so if i also were to accept the orders and go to the graduate course, effectively i would be off of the case in june, due to all the administrative requirements associated with moving and going to the course. whereas by resigning, i m able to stay in the military for an additional six months. as of 26 august, 2014, i m not only off of mr. muhammad s defense team, but i m also kicked out of the army. major jason wright quit. he resigned from the u.s. army in order to stay on this case just to you a few months longer, believing that was his ethical responsibility. he decided to quit and leave the army after nearly a decade of service. his last appearance in court as a defense attorney for muhammad was last week. he will work on the case for another few weeks and another military attorney will take his place. this is just a remarkable story. not only for what it says about the legal challenges of trying to prosecute these prisoners
it s not just any old murder case, it s a capital murder case. that means that your client, if he s convicted, could be facing the death penalty. let s say midway through your work on this criminal case, your boss decides to pull you off. your boss says we have something else for you to work on, you can no longer work on the defense of your client. what do you do? what is your ethical responsibility to your client? do you follow orders and walk away from the work you ve done in this defense? thus increasing the chances that your client will die because of you leaving? do you leave because your boss asks you to or do you tell your boss no and do what you can to follow the case through? now, imagine that your client is this guy. this, of course, is khalid sheikh muhammad, mastermind of 9/11. that predicament i just described is what his u.s. military lawyer is facing. jayson wright has been assigned to represent khalid sheikh muhammad.
in the u.s. justice system, every defendant has the right for a defense. he s represented khalid sheikh muhammad for three years now, but he s been told that he can no longer serve on the defense. he needs to drop out of the case and return home to the u.s. to attend a year-long graduate course that s required of all army jag lawyers at his level. what would you do? that was the question facing major wright. watch this. under army regulation, when you re given orders to attend a course of instruction, as an officer, you have 30 days to decide what to do. you can decide to accept the orders and proceed as directed,
say you are a lawyer, and you are representing a client who is accused of murder, but it s not just any old murder case, it s a capital murder case. that means that your client, if he s convicted, could be facing the death penalty. let s say midway through your work on this criminal case, your boss decides to pull you off. your boss says we have something else for you to work on, you can no longer work on the defense of your client. what do you do? what is your ethical responsibility to your client? do you follow orders and walk away from the work you ve done in this defense? thus increasing the chances that your client will die because of you leaving? do you leave because your boss asks you to or do you tell your boss no and do what you can to follow the case through? now, imagine that your client is this guy. this, of course, is khalid sheikh muhammad, mastermind of 9/11. that predicament i just