Books,
Government
Dec. 23, 2009
We Want Our Flag Back
Stephen Rohde of Rohde & Victoroff reviews the new book 'THE GUANTANAMO LAWYERS: Inside a Prison, Outside the Law.'
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
"If you had told me ten years ago that our government would be deliberately holding people in captivity on a naval base outside the U.S. mainland so that we could do whatever we wanted to them without the intervention of U.S. courts, I would have told you that you had been watching on too many miniseries on TV."
These outraged words from Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City, are typical of the over 100 personal narratives wr...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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