Interviews

The reports Americans receive from Iraq consist of a number of varieties, either (and most frequently) casualty reports of car bombings or attacks on convoys resulting in Iraqi and American deaths, or (on occasion) reports from the President or the Pentagon or other “official” sources that our media “is not reporting the good news out of Iraq.” Somewhere in that spectrum, as usual, a great many “human stories” are not being reported. I have the good fortune of being able to convey at least part of one of those stories to you. After an e-mail “introduction” from Mark Goldrup of...

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In November, 2004, shortly after the reelection of the American government which was in power at the time of the largest foreign attack against the United States on North American soil since the War of 1812, attorney Joshua Dratel was arguing on behalf of his client, Australian national David Hicks, at a military commission in a courthouse converted to accommodate classified information and proceedings on an American military base at Guanatamo Bay, Cuba, set up as one of the many ad hoc responses to that attack by that government. A short time later, U.S. District Judge James Robertson would stay...

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