Harpers’ Scott Horton has an update on the kangaroo court set up in Iraq to find Associated Press photojournalist Bilal Hussein guilty of whatever is convenient to the Pentagon. Bilal Hussein has been jailed by the U.S. military for nineteen month without trial.

Bilal’s case has been assigned to investigating Judge Dhia al-Kinani, who has already conducted a long series of evidentiary hearings in the case. The source said the Pentagon is confident that they will secure a conviction in the case. “Nothing is being left to chance in this case. It’s important and a lot of resources are being thrown at it.”
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The U.S. military has assigned a team of five to act effectively as prosecutors in the case. The team is headed by a JAG Captain named Kelvey. (Says the source: “We recognize, of course, that the U.S. has no authority to prosecute a case in an Iraqi court. That’s one of the reasons that a gag order was essential.”)

You should read the whole piece as I only have a minor point.

Who is "a JAG Captain named Kelvey"? Google comes up empty for "Kelvey JAG", "Kelvey Iraq", etc.

But what about Captain Kevin Calvey, who has a J.D. from Georgetown University and is currently in Baghdad?

Calvey is a former state representative from Oklahoma. A staunch Club of Growth tax cutting republican who in 2006 ran for Congress. His own bio says:

Kevin is also not afraid to fight when called to action.  After the start of the War on Terror, Kevin joined the Army National Guard.

When did the War of Terror start?
The local newspaper profile says:

In 2003, Calvey joined the 45th Infantry Brigade in the Oklahoma Army National Guard.

Also:

Kevin is a devout Christian, and has taught Sunday School for the last ten years. 

This from his 2006 profile:

Spouse: Brenda; Children: Chance and Chelsey

After the congress race didn’t turn out to be successful he needed some change. That’s why some think he is a bigot:

Kevin Calvey is proud of being a Sunday school teacher, but is dating a 23 year old after divorcing his wife.

A funny aside –  in 2002 Calvey tried to ban common-law marriage in Oklahoma.

House Bill 2682 by Rep. Kevin Calvey and House Bill 2397 by Rep. Raymond L. Vaughn, Jr., both received “do pass” recommendations Monday from the House Committee on the Judiciary. The measures were referred to the full House for votes sometime during the next four weeks.

HB 2682 decrees that after Nov. 1, 2002, a common-law marriage of a man and a woman “shall not be recognized as a valid form of marriage in Oklahoma.”

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“We require a license to drive a car,” Calvey, R-Del City, noted afterward. “How much more important is a marriage?”

Cpt Calvey is an expert in counterinsurgency. In one of his old blog-entries (scroll down) he says:

My impression is that most of the insurgency in Iraq would dry up pretty quickly, or at least become relatively ineffective, if it were not for meddling by forces from Iran and Syria.

All these meddling foreign forces – nasty, ain’t they?

His newer blog, though the last entry is from September, say little about his job. He is good at keeping that secret.

But he tries to go to mass daily, works out a lot and his new wife’s name is Toni.  He recently had a "second honeymoon" during some R&R downtime.

Calvey is working in the "International Zone" in Baghdad. In the mid of the year he "changed his job" within the military. He regularly goes out to the red zone to "work with Iraqis". There are thoughts about Guantanamo:

That’s about it. That’s all the rights to which such detainees are entitled. Not a full-blown trial. Not a right to view classified material.

A number of American law firms and others are pompously “representing” these terrorists and self-righteously claiming that the US government is wrong to hold them.

Perhaps these lawyers will take note from the fact that their “clients” when released are going back to recruiting children to be terrorists, beheading people, and blowing up car bombs in marketplaces.

I don’t know if Calvey really leads the case against Bilal Hussein. But the names match and he certainly has the right attitude.