List Of Stores Related To Guantanamo Bay And The Military Commissions

The Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law has a great compendium on stores related to the Military Commissions and the detainees at Guantanamo Bay:

11/30/2008:  A round-up of today’s opinion pieces on Guantanamo:

• The New York Times features an op-ed by Jonathan Mahler in which he argues that the Obama administration will have to decide on how to define terrorism, perhaps moving beyond the unhelpful binary distinction between war or crime.
• The Boston Globe features an op-ed by Sabin Willet pointing out that of the 22 cases to go to any sort of adjudicatory proceedings, only one has resulted in a conviction.  Some, such as Attorney General Mukasey argue that this means we need new rules to prosecute terrorists.  Others would point out that something went very wrong in the detentions themselves.
• The Washington Times features a commentary by Michelle Malkin in which she expresses her disdain for the government’s attempt to lessen the injustice of continuing to hold the detainees at Guantanamo by pointing out how humane their treatment there is.
• The Washington Post features a second op-ed piece by Jack Cloonan and Sarah Mendelson in which they argue that preventative detentions, like indefinite detentions, have no place in a future legal regime to deal with suspected terrorists.

11/29/2008:  The Washington Post features an op-ed by Jack Cloonan and Sarah Mendelson in which they argue that would be unacceptable for the Obama administration to include in its closing of Guantanamo a continuation of the indefinite detentions, even for those considered too dangerous to release.  They write that our legal system is capable of handling these cases and that it is imperative to base the new legal regime for handling terrorist suspects on the rule of law, without exceptions.

11/28/2008:  The Miami Herald discusses the criticisms of the military tribunal proceedings as observed by a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted terrorist sympathizers in Manhattan.  The prosecutor, Anthony Barkow, believes that the current federal court system is sufficiently equipped to handle national security cases and that U.S. attorneys would like to take those cases.  While the military tribunals have been more protective of classified information as evidence, Barkow insists that the federal courts could handle it as well.

11/27/2008:  The New York Times features an op-ed by Roger Cohen, and the Nation features one by Michael Ratner and Jules Lobel, in which the authors argue that Guantanamo needs to be closed, not simply moved to Charleston, S.C. into the navy brig.  Cohen in particular gives thanks that the U.S. is about to embark on a term under the command of a constitutional lawyer and that the rule of law will be restored, Guantanamo closed, and a new legal framework established to deal with terrorism suspects.

Here are the rest of the entries.

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