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From the court-martial itself, the case goes to the convening authority, the officer who called the court into being.
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Craig Franklin, the convening authority in the case, threw out the verdict.
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"His treatment met the legal definition of torture, " Susan Crawford, then head of the convening authority of military commissions, told The Washington Post.
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