Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Justice and the Enemy: The Case for Guantanamo

William Shawcross | Posted 03.18.2012

William Shawcross

Critics of military courts sometimes complain that the accused have far less rights than in the federal system. This is not so. Any Nazi defendant transported by time machine from Nuremberg to Guantanamo would be stunned by the rights, privileges, and safeguards to which he was now entitled.