Episode #84: Bahlul, Bahlul, Bahlul
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2014
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Benjamin Wittes, Wells Bennett, and Steve Vladeck sit down to talk aboout the D.C. Circuit Court's recent decision in the Al Bahlul case and what it means for the future of US military commissions.
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| 1:04.0 | One of the real ironies of this whole case is that it's actually almost potentially |
| 1:10.0 | worse for the government that they won this way, the D.C. Suriname. |
| 1:14.0 | If the government had just lost an exposed factor, then that would have killed all the legacy cases. |
| 1:18.0 | It would have meant you couldn't try Baluul, you couldn't try Hamdan, |
| 1:22.0 | you couldn't try any pre-MCA conduct. |
| 1:25.0 | That wasn't international war crime. |
| 1:27.0 | It would leave completely open the question of post-MCA conduct, |
| 1:30.0 | which is a question that has almost no relevance to Guantanamo. |
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