DW

I would love to do it, but two terrorism cases are sapping my strength and time at the moment. Thanks for the idea though and perhaps I will get some time once I get through these cases.

Best,

Jonathan

JT, and I don’t care if you reply or not, you are in an ideal position to write a rather large book on the sometimes baroque, always tragic legal proceedings of the last 6 years that centered around the “terrorists”, terrorism, and the government’s legal response.

You participated as counsel in several cases. You know the actors and the cast of characters in supporting roles: the judges, the courts, the counsels, the accused.

It would be a vivid story, compulsively readable, and beneficial to the nation as a civics lesson in what happens when law and national security collide.

The lawyers on both sides, the judges caught in the middle, the memorandums, the unprecedented abuses of habeas and counsel/client relations, the sheer overbearing power of the Executive. From Guantanamo to San Francisco to Portland to Washington to New York, the legal battles played out. And the bad guys, our government, mostly won.

It would make a great book, justice in the age of terror. And you are actually the best scholar with national recognition to write it.

http://www.lawandsecurity.org/publications/TTRC_US_2006_Appendix_A.pdf

Pleeeeease write at book length about this era Professor.