The Taste of Crow: Okay, I'm Alarmed Now
By Benjamin Wittes
December 12, 2017 at 08:30AM
via Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices http://ift.tt/2iWDUOU
«The government, it seems to me, has two respectable choices here: It can transfer or free the detainee, or it can give him access to counsel and allow him to file a case challenging his detention. What it cannot do—and what the courts should not tolerate—is refuse to honor any of the systems designed to guarantee judicial oversight of an American's detention and to obfuscate the circumstances of that detention to enable itself in that refusal.»