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Salim Hamdan

Salim Hamdan

Terrorism & National Security

A Legacy that Takes Time to Undo

Report 13 January 2009
On his first day in office, President-elect Obama will announce that his administration will close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. His announcement represents a clear repudiation of President Bush’s approach to detention policies that have failed to bring terrorists to justice and have damaged the credibility of our justice system and our democracy in the eyes of the world.
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Terrorism & National Security

HAMDAN VERDICT: We Waited Seven Years for This?

Report 6 August 2008
Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, was convicted on a charge of material assistance to terrorism and acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The Bush administration’s military commissions have not only violated our basic values and traditions; almost seven years after the 9/11 attacks, they have failed to bring terrorists to justice while damaging the credibility of our justice system and our democracy in the eyes of the world.
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