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• Un Petit Instant, SVP

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:08 PM By Diane Marie Amann
  
  Am enjoying today's discussion of U.S. military commissions. But I fear the jumping-off point for the discussion, an endorsement of France's prosecution of Farid Benyettou et al . , rests on shaky ground. It's dangerous to try to draw parallels between Read More...
  Filed under: military commissions, France, Guantánamo, Norman Abrams, Bill Clinton, material support for terrorism

• Vive les États-Unis

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:05 AM By Emily Bazelon
  
  Also , our point wasn’t to issue any sort of blanket indictment of military justice, or American justice, as a whole. To the contrary. Same government, yes, but very different rules—and in the traditional court systems, it’s the courts that make those Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, military commissions, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, France, secret evidence

• Donnez-Moi la Fourchette?

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:59 AM By Dahlia Lithwick
  
  Eric , I don’t think you’ve correctly stated the Bazelon/Lithwick standard here: It’s not that all Pentagon balking is per se evidence of crap commissions. It’s that the balking, plus the seven years of after-the-fact tinkering (the CSRT “do-overs” or Read More...
  Filed under: military commissions, France, secret evidence

• La Justice à Huis Clos?

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:44 AM By Phillip Carter
  
  Eric, we're fast approaching the end of my French vocabulary, and I really don't want to resort to using Google's translator to keep up with this conversation. But I think you're misapplying the Catch-22 standard to the French sentencing decision announced Read More...
  Filed under: military commissions, France, secret evidence

• Vive la Différence!

  Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 10:21 AM By Phillip Carter
  
  Eric, I think Joseph Heller would agree with the Catch-22 scenario you've described for the commissions at Guantanamo Bay. They truly are damned if they proceed and damned if they don't. Perhaps unintentionally, I think you've arrived at the right conclusion: Read More...
  Filed under: Guantanamo, military commissions, terrorism, France

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