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Hello and welcome to the law fair podcast. I'm Wells Bennett. In this episode,

Benjamin Wittis, my colleague here at Brookings and law fair's editor in chief,

speaks at Britain's House of Commons on April 24th during an event organized by the Henry Jackson Society.

The question under discussion is, are drones the New Guantanamo?

Well, good evening ladies and gentlemen. We've been just about to strike six p.m. Can I welcome you to this Henry Jackson Society event.

Before I hand over to our guest speaker this evening, I'd like to introduce Robin Simcox,

who is the research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society to say a few words and then I will give a brief introduction

before going over to our speaker tonight. Robin. Thank you. I will keep this exceptionally brief.

I work on the Alkairn Society movements and cancer terrorism project at the Henry Jackson Society.

It's a really fantastic pleasure to be able to introduce this talk today.

The website that Benjamin co-founded, the law fair blog, is one of the leading resources for somebody like me

who works with these works in this field every day. It's a truly fantastic resource.

The banner of the website is hard national security choices.

And that epitomizes what it does. It does really perfectly. The concerns that some of the law fair looks at,

some of the key areas of our time, really, in balancing liberty and security,

be it from Guantanamo Bay to drones, to detention, to rendition, to enhanced interrogation,

some of which I'm sure will come up today. I think this is the leading website in analysis of those issues.

And these are issues which have divided to administrations. They've strailed over to administrations.

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