You Can't Make This Shit Up!: Leading the Fight for the Rule of Law in the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions

At the Military Commissions Defense Organization (MCDO), truth was (and is) stranger than fiction. We would often invoke the mantra "You can't make this shit up!" There is another meaning to this phrase: when the Bush administration decided to create ("make up") the GTMO military commissions and not to use established systems of justice, they were asking for trouble. It is impossible to create a new system of "justice" on the fly, particularly one created to hide illegal practices (redactio...