New American Foundation Panel Today

For any Lawfare readers who may wish to attend and throw rotting fruit at me, I will be speaking today at this panel event at the New American Foundation. It should be an interesting discussion.

Nine Years of Guantánamo: What Now?

Nine years after opening the prison at the Guantanamo Bay naval base, the United States still faces major questions and partisan rancor over the future of the prison, the fate of its 174 remaining detainees, and the proper means of trying and holding terrorism suspects detained at home and abroad. Please join the New America Foundation National Security Studies Program for an important discussion on the prison's future, and the broader context of the state of terrorism, detention and the law today.

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Featured Speakers Andy Worthington Journalist, Author, Filmmaker, Senior Researcher, Cageprisoners Author, The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison Co-director, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" Col. (ret) Morris Davis Executive Director, Crimes of War Education Project Former Chief Prosecutor, U.S. Military Commissions at Guantanamo Thomas Wilner Partner, Shearman & Sterling LLP Represented Guamtanamo detainees in the Rasul v Bush and Boumediene v Bush cases Benjamin Wittes Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Author, Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo Moderator Patrick Doherty Senior Advisor, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative Director, Smart Strategy Initiative New America Foundation

Update: Here is the video of the lively debate that took place at this event: