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I moved to Washington in the weeks after Pearl Harbor - remember, this was a war that everyone wanted to fight in - and worked as an attorney for a member of the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel. One Sunday afternoon in June I was called and asked to report to...
The executive order issued by President Bush last week is in some ways similar to Roosevelt's July 2, 1942 document, but the events and terms differ in important respects. Notably, we had eight people in jail and had to devise a quick means of trying them as spies. That...
In July 1942, when the first witness took the stand and was asked the first question, Kenneth Royall, the appointed counsel for the defendants, stood up and made a valid objection to the form of the question. The tribunal recessed for 45 minutes, roughly the amount of time it takes...
There are legitimiate uses for a military trial - trying terrorists in a military court in a place as lawless as Afganistan is one of them. But whether and under what rules a trial of terroists in the United States should be conducted in secret or in public before a military...
“The tribunal idea looks to me like a way of dealing with a fear that we lack the evidence to convict these people,” Heymann said.