There’s a ton of info and stories now available on the momentus Supreme Court Hamdan decision — but we’ll point you to two MUST READ posts that are different in style and viewpoint:
(1) Who gains? Who loses? What does it say about the United States? What’s likely to come next politically. Bull Moose has some thoughts.
(2) The Talking Dog has another ORIGINAL Q&A INTERVIEW on a terrorism related issue — this time within the context of the Hamdan decision. Here’s the lead in:
Jeffrey F. Addicott is Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Administration, and Director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, Texas. For twenty years, Professor Addicott served in the United States Army’s Judge Advocate General Corps, retiring with the rank of Lt. Colonel. He served for much of that time as the senior legal advisor to the U.S. Army Special Forces. Professor Addicott has consulted with the United States military with respect to the military commission process at Guantanamo, and has written extensively on the law associated with terrorism matters, including one of the very first text books on the subject, “Cases and Materials on Terrorism Law”. On June 28, 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing Professor Addicott by telephone. What follows are my interview notes, corrected as appropriate by Professor Addicott. [On June 29, 2006, between the interview and the subsequent review of the post, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case.]
The interview touches on the Hamdan case.
Read BOTH POSTS in their entirety.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.