My recent appearance on Democracy Now discussing the Lynne Stewart re-sentencing…video here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/7/16/civil_rights_attorney_lynne_stewart_re
And an earlier appearance on Democracy Now from last November, discussing the Aafia Siddiqui case. Video here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/4/ignoring_torture_claims_and_questionable_evidence
A piece on Lynne Stewart, defense attorney and human rights activist, who was re-sentenced this week to 10 years.
Full text here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-petra-stewart-20100715,0,7897821.story
Check out my review of
Karen Greenberg’s book on the first hundred days of Guantanamo in the Spring 2010 issue of the Carnegie Foundation’s Ethics and International Affairs journal. You can link to the piece online here:
Jan. 23, 2010–More coverage of the Aafia Siddiqui trial. A dispatch for TIME Magazine’s online edition on security measures and the lack of equal access for certain members of the media.
See full text here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1956197,00.html
Jan 18, 2010–This week Aafia Siddiqui goes on trial. My pretrial roundup for Time Magazine’s online edition on what we can expect to see and what we won’t see.
See full text here: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1954598,00.html
Why the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his fellow accused 9/11 plotters will be neither the civil liberties victory its proponents claim, nor the terrorist propaganda opportunity its opponents fear.
Full text here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-petra29-2009nov29,0,477313.story
Check out my latest article “The Intelligence Factory,” on the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui in the November 2009 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
From the July/August 2009 issue of Mother Jones
See the full article linked here:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/thousand-little-gitmos
The U.S. government spent two years on a sting operation trapping an Indian man named Hemant Lakhani, whom they suspected of being an illegal arms dealer. It’s one of the first cases that went to trial in the War on Terror, and one the Justice Department pointed to as one of their big successes. In the end, they got Lakhani, red-handed, delivering a missile to a terrorist in New Jersey. The only problem was, nothing in the sting was what it appeared to be. Including the missile.
Check out the free download at:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=387
A lawyer in the Justice Department gets the professional opportunity of a lifetime: to be the lead prosecutor in one of the first high-profile terrorist cases since 9/11. But things go badly for him. His convictions get overturned, he loses his job, and he ends up on trial himself, in federal court. His accusers? His former colleagues at the Justice department.
Check out the free download at:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1245