Friday, January 16, 2009

Guantanamo and Beyond

Maybe not all the answers but a good piece to get you thinking about the whole problem.
clipped from www.tcf.org
Among the many mega-headaches facing the incoming administration, the Guantánamo Bay
Detention Camp poses unique dangers, symbolically and operationally. By detaining hundreds of
prisoners there, without access to lawyers or to the courts, the United States probably has neutralized
some dangerous terrorists and acquired useful intelligence, but we also have damaged relationships
with our allies and fomented hatred against us, creating many violent extremists in the world at large
for every one that we held in Guantánamo. In this new publication from the Agenda Series, Stephen J. Schulhofer discusses how the new administration can restore domestic and international principles by relying upon the pre–September 11 institutions of military and civilian justice. Download the publication (PDF).
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