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We chose, with successive presidencies, not to hold those people accountable who said, “You know what? The rule of law just doesn't apply at certain times. We're not going to go down that road.” I think that that is, over the long term, extremely harmful to democracy.

Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, joins This is Hell! to discuss her latest article, "Closing Guantánamo?: Yes, at a Snail's Pace...but a Pace," published in TomDispatch.

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Guest

Karen Greenberg

@KarenGreenberg3

Karen J. Greenberg is the Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law. Her most recent book is Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump. Her books include Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State (2016) and The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First One Hundred Days (2010). She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an International Studies Fellow at New America and a Visiting Fellow at the Soufan Center.

Guantánamo Is Closing...at a Snail's Pace / Karen Greenberg

Karen Greenberg

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