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The great Tom Joscelyn, writing at The Weekly Standard has posted The Washington Post’s Jihadist Op-Ed Contributor.

He provides 5 reasons why the Post should have thought twice before giving Moazzam Begg space to comment.  With all deference to Tom, I’m thinking they thought twice but just didn’t care, mostly because what he has to [...]

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I just received my eagerly anticipated copy of Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo by Benjamin Wittes.  Ben discusses the book in greater detail over at Lawfare, with a nice excerpt located here.

Here is the official description from the book jacket:

Benjamin Wittes issues a persuasive call [...]

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Over at Lawfare, Bobby Chesney writes:

In an editorial that ran on Monday, the Times took up the laudable task of defending the administration’s plans to substantially enhance the procedural safeguards associated with the annual review board process for GTMO detainees.  All to the good if you ask me.  Inexplicably, however, the editorial [...]

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According to the Associated Press, Britain has agreed to pay millions of dollars to former Guantanamo detainees, rather than risk exposing intelligence sources and methods.

It’s important to note here that these civil suits were successful based merely on allegations that the former detainees were tortured or abused.  One of the more well known [...]

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On Thursday March 11th the University of Arkansas Little Rock Law Review will be hosting a symposium focusing on prisoners’ rights.  I will be appearing on the panel addressing prisoners’ rights and international law.

The symposium will feature three panels throughout the day, each focusing on different issues surrounding prisoners’ rights.

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Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor who most notably was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing case has rejected an offer by Attorney General Holder to join the President’s Task Force on Detention Policy.  His letter is here.  In light of the fact that the President’s policy decision was made on [...]

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