A Better Way on Detainees
By Jack Goldsmith, a law professor at Harvard, and Eric A. Posner, a law professor at the University of Chicago, are the authors of The Limits of International Law. (THE WASHINGTON POST, 04/08/06):
Everyone involved in the contentious negotiations between the White House and Congress over the proper form for military commissions seems to agree on at least one thing: that al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists ought to be prosecuted. We think this assumption is wrong: Terrorist trials are both unnecessary and unwise.
The United States holds more than 400 terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, and 500 or so more at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.… Seguir leyendo »