Guantanamo: Law School Lessons
Show #1306

Guantanamo - that prison camp in a corner of Cuba, not quite on U.S. soil. Since 2002, it's been at the center of an international debate. Is it a necessary step in ensuring our national security - or is it a national disgrace? Three years ago, a Seton Hall law professor and his Center for Policy and Research began probing that question, by scrutinizing thousands of government documents. Mark Denbeaux and his student researchers asked: "Whom are we holding." their conclusion was: "the wrong people." On this edition of Due Process, we look at Guantanamo as a teaching tool ... but also as a controversial piece of the larger war on terror. In the studio: Jonathan Hafetz of the NYU Brennan Center for Justice and Commander Thomas Fichter, JAG, of the U.S. Naval Reserve.