November 12, 2008

JUST CHANGE THE NAME:

How to Close Guantánamo: A Legal Minefield (Mark Kukis, Nov. 11, 2008, TIME)

Few attorneys better understand the legal dilemmas surrounding the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, than Neal Katyal. In 2006, Katyal led a successful Supreme Court case challenging the legality of the Bush Administration's military tribunals in Guantánamo, a ruling that sounded one of the first death knells for Camp X-Ray. But two years later, difficult questions about how to close Guantánamo continue to vex legal minds ranging from Katyal to the advisers now gathering around President-elect Barack Obama. "This is a huge and difficult problem," says Katyal, who teaches national-security law at Georgetown University. "I don't actually see obvious answers."

Instead of Guantanamo Bay, call it the Harold Washington Rehabilitation Center for Wayward Boys and you know the Left will forget about the place by Thanksgiving.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2008 10:44 AM
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