Ashton Carter and the Joint Chiefs Should be Shot at Dawn

If there is any truth to this:

The Pentagon is blocking the return of UK permanent resident Shaker Aamer and two other longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees for whom the US Department of State has completed diplomatic deals to transfer home, the Guardian has learned.

American and UK diplomats reached an agreement in late 2013 for the return of Aamer, who has spent more than 13 years at the infamous detention facility without charge, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the understanding.

But even as the White House pledged to make his case a priority after a personal plea from David Cameron, Barack Obama’s defense secretaries have played what one official called “foot-dragging and process games” to let the deals languish.

If that is at all true, then they are violating the Constitution. The President is the C-in-C; Carter's choice, and those of his generals, is to obey or resign. Anything else should result in, well, the Redcoats had a way of dealing with that.