Room for Debate: Time to End Military Tribunals?

A Failed Experiment

Andrea Prasow, Human Rights Watch

Those implicated in serious crimes should be prosecuted, but in a time-tested judicial system, not one built from scratch.

Foreign Terrorists Are Different

Eric Posner, co-author, "Terror in the Balance"

Military commissions relax some procedural protections that make sense for ordinary criminals but are unworkable when sensitive intelligence is involved.

Shut Down the Whole Thing

Vincent Warren, Center for Constitutional Rights

We must not leave people to rot in Guantánamo or force them to participate in the political show trials of the military commissions.

A Hybrid Court for a Hybrid Warrior

Glenn M. Sulmasy, law professor, U. S. Coast Guard Academy

The U. S. needs to break out of the two prevailing paradigms of employing either a law enforcement model or a law of armed conflict model and find a third way.

We the People Should Judge

Laura K. Donohue, author, "The Cost of Counterterrorism"

Military tribunals strip citizens of their right to take part in the adjudication of those held in custody and accused of terrorist attacks.