Closing Guantanamo: For and Against

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 - 6:00pm04/13/2016 6:00pm 04/13/2016 6:00pm Closing Guantanamo: For and Against

A Conversation with
Thomas Joscelyn
Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Alberto Mora
Senior Fellow, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
Barbara Starr (Moderator)
Pentagon Correspondent, CNN

America/New_York public

Panelists Thomas Joscelyn, a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Alberto Mora, a Senior Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, joined moderator Barbara Starr, a Pentagon Correspondent for CNN, for a discussion on the arguments around closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The panelists reflected on the historical context of Guantanamo as it relates to the war on terror and the United States’ legal positions on indefinite detainment of suspected terrorist. They also discussed the political debates regarding trying the detainees in court, the threat to national security that the detention center poses, and the logistics of transferring those held at Guantanamo.

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