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Volume 33, Issue 2.
Fall
This spring, The Fletcher Forum sat down with Jack Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel during the George W Bush administration, to discuss the national security law in a post-9/11 context. Goldsmith addressed particulars such as torture, domestic surveillance, nuclear terrorism, and the rights of ... read moreGuantinamo Bay detainees, and principles, such as the secrecy, transparency, and law's reach and application during times of national crisis. In closing, Goldsmith identified two important issues that may challenge U.S. legal architecture in the near future: cyber security and the use of the military in a domestic context during a national emergency.
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