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

I was an active-duty Army JAG for 20 years. When I retired in 2006, I was approached

to work as Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions Defense

Organization (MCDO): the team defending people held at Guantánamo Bay in the Bush

administration's "War on Terror". In many senses, the military commissions, created in the

aftermath of 9/11, were the antithesis of good national and international law, designed to allow the

use of evidence obtained from torture to prosecute and...