I was an active-duty Army JAG for 20 years. When I retired in 2006, I was approachedto work as Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions DefenseOrganization (MCDO): the team defending people held at Guantánamo Bay in the Bushadministration's "War on Terror". In many senses, the military commissions, created in theaftermath of 9/11, were the antithesis of good national and international law, designed to allow theuse of eviden...

I was an active duty Army JAG for 20 years. When I retired in 2006, I was approached to work as Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions Defense Organization (MCDO): the team defending people held at Guantánamo Bay in the Bush administration’s “war on terror”. In many senses, the military commissions, created in the aftermath of 9/11, were the antithesis of good national and international law, originally designed to allow the use of evidence obtained from torture...