We have heard a rumor about the case where they have prosecuted the japanese for waterboarding. We sent a young marine captain out to go dig out the records. I dont think its seen been in six years at that point. It is a story you just described. Of the doolittle raid which was the most celebrated operation of world war ii. It was a story about torture and justice. And revenge. I felt sitting there. I was reading this episode from 1945 to 1946. The United States is prosecuting the japanese for doing all of the things we were doing in the war on terrorism i dont mean to be naive or it just kind of hit me in the chest. With 60 years of time. And im seeing right where im sitting at that very moment. There was a thing in the back of my mind that give context to all of the work that i ended up doing for a number of years after that. I decided. In 2014 to try to make a book about it. And thats how we got the book we have today. I had been talking to michelle now for guantanamo. 2007. One is
Our guests are the author, a leading human rights lawyer and National Security scholar, litigate in one many highprofile cases including several of the landmark guantanamo cases and several others. Hes been working for the military Commission Defense organization. Michel paradis lectured at columbia law school, fellow at the center on National Security and hes a fordham law grad. Carol rosenberg will be talking to him about his book. She is an reporter for than york times working in collaboration with the polish privileges in. Shes been reporting in the u. S. , in the u. S. And at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened on january 11, 2002. She started with the miami herald where before that she really reporting from middle east. She moved to the new york times. She has won many awards including the robert f. Kennedy journalism award, the aba silver gavel award and part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news and 2001. Let me tell you the format. Michel an
Pentagons military Commission Defense organization. The show lectures at clumpy law school and a fellow here in the center of National Security and i must mention is a fordham law grad. Karen rosenberg will talk about his book, his awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with a pulitzer center. [inaudible] she started with the miami herald or before that she recorded from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize of breaking news in 2001. So, when we tell you the format. Michelle and carol we will talk and then i will come back on and i will pose questions that have come from the audience and if you have any questions at all please feel free to put them in the chat or if you prefer q a then i will get to as many as i can do. Without further ado michelle, carol, take it away. Thank you so much. Tha
Today as the guest will tell you. The guests are the author, michelle, a leading human rights lawyer, security scholar whose litigated and one many highprofile cases including several of the landmark cases and several others. Working for the pentagon military Commission Defense organization. Michelle lectures at columbia law firm and is a fellow on National Security and board of law graduate. Carol rosenberg will be talking about the book awardwinning Senior Reporter for the New York Times working in collaboration with the center. Rosenberg has been reporting in the u. S. And at Guantanamo Bay since the day it opened on january 11th, 2002. She started with the miami herald where before that she reported from the middle east and moved recently to the New York Times. She has won many awards including the Robert F Kennedy journalism award, the silver gavel award and was part of the miami herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2001. So, let me tell you the format. The
In the international organization, the american journal of political science, journal of politics and security studies, he is already launched on the second book project which is very ambitious which analyzes the role of Sensitive Information and secrecy in international organizations. He received his ph. D from ohio state in 2013 and as i previously mentioned, he was a Summer Research scholar under the title eight program here at the Cannon Institute in 2013. So with that ill turn the floor over to austin. Great. Thanks so much, will. Thanks also to all of you for coming out. It is great to be back here at the Wilson Center and i appreciate the support, the support of the Cold War International history project and shout out to victoria and cindy for all youve done to make it possible to come out here. So i want to start my talk about this book with a simple but i think profound question. Which is how have we as an International Community avoided world war iii. After suffering two cata