New Military tweet, Gitmo judge related.

https://twitter.com/Militarydotcom/status/1082619271925190657?s=19

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba – In another setback to the resumption of the USS Cole tribunal at Guantanamo, a military judge who was supposed to preside in the case has found a new job in an immigration court, the second judge in the case to do so.

In August, the chief judge for military commissions assigned Air Force Col. Shelley Schools to preside in the on-again, off-again death-penalty trial against Saudi captive Abd al Rahim al Nashiri. She was chosen to replace Air Force Col. Vance Spath, who was retiring to serve as an immigration judge too.

Nashiri was captured in Dubai in 2002, held for years in secret CIA prisons and charged in 2011. But the start of trial has been delayed by a series of structural, personnel and evidence challenges.

On January 22, a federal appellate court in Washington will hear arguments on whether Spath should have disclosed his nearly three-year pursuit of a job with the Department of Justice to become an immigration court division. He left military service last year and is hearing cases as a civilian immigration judge in Arlington, Virginia. Defense lawyers for Nashiri want all of Spath's rulings nullified during the time he secretly pursued the job because case prosecutors appearing before him came from the Department of Justice's National Security Division.

Schools, however, has never presided in the Nashiri case at Guantanamo as higher courts have been reviewing several questions. . War court prosecutors disclosed in a Jan. 4 appellate court filing obtained by McClatchy that Schools may never…