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Guantanamo Showdown
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Benjamin Wittes
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Topic: Law and ethics (Military and martial law)
Keywords: Terrorism; Guantanamo Bay
Type: Brief
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
The charges prosecutors filed on February 11, 2008, against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and five other alleged September 11 conspirators cannot proceed credibly to trial in anything less than a viable court system. More than six years after the Bush administration first introduced military commissions, finally we will learn whether they offer a plausible means of trying terrorists or whether the system is the total flop it has seemed to be.
This essay appeared in the New Republic online on February 14, 2008.