grenade attack in a bazaar in Afghanistan. Colonel Stephen R. Henley had been growing impatient with the prosecution, and had given them a deadline to share evidence they had withheld from defense attorney Major David J. R. Frakt, which he suspected could prove exculpatory. The BBC reports that the withheld evidence includes the confessions of two men who said they were the ones who actually made the attack. Vandeveld's resignation was filed within the Military Commission system. The New York Times reported he had not commented publicly about his resignation. Carol Rosenberg, of the Miami Herald, quoted from Vandeveld's four-page resignation memo: Frakt claimed that Vandeveld had recommended a plea bargain and an early release for Jawad, who was a youth when the event took place. Held by the United States since 2002, he had been subjected to coercive "enhanced interrogation techniques", including prolonged sleep deprivation in Guantanamo's frequent flyer program. Frakt commented that Vandeveld: "could no longer continue to serve ethically as a prosecutor." Chief Prosecutor Colonel Lawrence Morris asserted: Morris' denigration of Vandeveld's claims was later refuted by the Bush administration, which admitted, as Vandeveld had contended, that the detainee prosecution files remained in a state of disarray, some six years after the Commissions had first been formed. Morris retired from the US Army within months after these revelations. He has since been appointed to a position created by the US Army JAG Corps for Morris upon his retirement: "Chief of Trial Advocacy." According to Josh Meyer, writing in the Los Angeles Times, Frakt planned to call Vandeveld as a witness on September 25 or 26, 2008. Vandeveld was willing to testify. But his superiors planned to block his testimony. According to Meyers, Frakt planned to ask Henley, the Presiding Officer, to compel Vandeveld's testimony. Robert Preston Major Robert Preston is a lawyer, and an officer in the United States Air Force. Together with Captain John Carr and USAF Captain Carrie Wolf, Preston was among the military lawyers tasked to serve as prosecutors of the suspected terrorists imprisoned at the American Guantanamo Bay detainment camp. All three military lawyers requested transfers to other assignments because they had concerns that the proceedings would be innately unjust. These memos were leaked to the press. On August 1, 2005, the Australian newspaper, The Age published an article based on the leaked memos. It quoted Preston's memo: The article quoted Brigadier General