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The right way to try KSM

by Benjamin Wittesvia Washington Post
Thursday, October 28, 2010

Here's a simple proposal to break the impasse over how to proceed against Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his colleagues: Press charges in both military commissions and in federal court. Call it the John Allen Muhammad model...

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Something Like Justice

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

To me [Omar Khadr's guilty] plea and the adjudication look at least something like justice–and maybe quite a lot like justice...

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Wittes v. O’Connell on Targeted Killing and Drones

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Monday, October 25, 2010

Here is the video of my debate with Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame law school on targeted killings and drone warfare on Saturday at International Law Weekend in New York...

Wittes v. O’Connell on Targeted Killing and Drones

by Benjamin Wittesvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, October 25, 2010

Here is the video of my debate with Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame law school on targeted killings and drone warfare on Saturday at International Law Weekend in New York.

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Thoughts on Judge Randolph’s Speech

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Friday, October 22, 2010

Judge A. Raymond Randolph, in his speech the other day at the Heritage Foundation, addressed two intertwined but ultimately distinct issues: Whether the Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision is historically and jurisprudentially sound, and the “mess” it has created in the lower courts...

Adam Serwer on the John Allen Muhammed Model

by Benjamin Wittesvia Advancing a Free Society
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Adam Serwer has a very interesting response to my post a few days back about

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Adam Serwer on the John Allen Muhammad Model

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Adam Serwer has a very interesting response to my post a few days back about charging KSM and friends in both Article III courts and military commissions...

Gabor Rona on Choice of Forum

by Benjamin Wittesvia Advancing a Free Society
Monday, October 18, 2010

I intended this post as a challenge to the political Right, not the human rights community, on military commissions.

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Gabor Rona on Choice of Forum

by Benjamin Wittesvia Lawfare
Monday, October 18, 2010

I intended this post as a challenge to the political Right, not the human rights community, on military commissions. I was, therefore, a little surprised to receive this note from Gabor Rona, international legal director of Human Rights First, in response...

The John Allen Muhammad Model for KSM

by Benjamin Wittesvia Advancing a Free Society
Saturday, October 16, 2010

This is a trial balloon. I’m not 100 percent certain that what I am suggesting is wise, politically astute, or even that it would work legally. I have not thought through all of the implications of what I am going to suggest here.

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