President-elect Barack Obama has called for the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay to be closed, and legal rights to be restored to the approximately 250 detainees left at the facility. A new report from UC Berkeley’s School of Law and the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center states that those already released from the wartime prison are suffering long term psychological damage. We talk with a panel of experts about the upcoming political tussle over ‘Gitmo.’
Guests:
Laurel Fletcher, clinical professor of law and director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at UC Berkeley
John Eastman, dean and Donald P. Kennedy chair of law at Chapman University
Vijay Padmanabhan, visiting professor at Cardozo School of law in New York and former State Department chief counsel on Guantanamo and Iraq detainee litigation
Jackie Northam, national security correspondent for National Public Radio
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