NOTE: The Moderate Voice encourages readers to read weblogs of all persuasions that contain original reporting. No matter what your ideology, original blog reporting offers you some new perspectives and tidbits of info that you won’t find on television or in print news. And blogs can indeed be more than cyberspace op-ed pages. (Tomorrow we will feature one that has offered several original posts from Iraq). The Talking Dog has done a series of original Q&As centering on legal issues surrounding the war on terror.

Here’s part of the intro to the latest one:

TD Blog Interview with Jonathan Hafetz

As the Moussaoui trial and the recent Supreme Court arguments in the Hamdan case remind us, many aspects of the “war on terror” are being fought in the legal system– and unfortunately for a society that supposedly values the rule of law– a number of battles that the Bush Administration has elected to pursue around the legal system. Jonathan Hafetz, now an associate counsel at (my alma mater) New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Project, is representing clients in several of those areas, including a Qatari client at Guantanamo Bay, a Qatari client now held in the same naval brig that long housed Jose Padilla, and an American citizen held in Iraq that our military wants to turn over to Iraqi authorities where he might well be tortured. Mr. Hafetz has also written extensively on legal aspects of the war on terror, including a recent piece in the New York Law Journal on the case of Arar v. Bush, involving the policy of “extraordinary rendition.” (By coincidence, both Mr. Hafetz and I are coaches in the same youth soccer league, and our teams will likely face each other later in the season.)

On April 11, 2006, I had the privilege of speaking to Mr. Hafetz by telephone. What follows are my interview notes, as corrected by Mr. Hafetz.

Read it all yourself because, the way it’s constructed, if we offer you one part it takes it out of context.

JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

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, writes a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.

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NOTE: The Moderate Voice encourages readers to read weblogs of all persuasions that contain original reporting. No matter what your ideology, original blog reporting offers you some new perspectives and tidbits of info that you won’t find on television or in print news. And blogs can indeed be more than cyberspace op-ed pages. (Tomorrow we will feature one that has offered several original posts from Iraq). The Talking Dog has done a series of original Q&As centering on legal issues surrounding the war on terror.

Here’s part of the intro to the latest one:

TD Blog Interview with Jonathan Hafetz

As the Moussaoui trial and the recent Supreme Court arguments in the Hamdan case remind us, many aspects of the “war on terror” are being fought in the legal system– and unfortunately for a society that supposedly values the rule of law– a number of battles that the Bush Administration has elected to pursue around the legal system. Jonathan Hafetz, now an associate counsel at (my alma mater) New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty & National Security Project, is representing clients in several of those areas, including a Qatari client at Guantanamo Bay, a Qatari client now held in the same naval brig that long housed Jose Padilla, and an American citizen held in Iraq that our military wants to turn over to Iraqi authorities where he might well be tortured. Mr. Hafetz has also written extensively on legal aspects of the war on terror, including a recent piece in the New York Law Journal on the case of Arar v. Bush, involving the policy of “extraordinary rendition.” (By coincidence, both Mr. Hafetz and I are coaches in the same youth soccer league, and our teams will likely face each other later in the season.)

On April 11, 2006, I had the privilege of speaking to Mr. Hafetz by telephone. What follows are my interview notes, as corrected by Mr. Hafetz.

Read it all yourself because, the way it’s constructed, if we offer you one part it takes it out of context.

JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

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, writes a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.

themoderatevoice.com/