Karen Greenberg was quoted in the New York Times Sunday magazine about Guantánamo Bay.
Karen Greenberg, who is the founder and director of Fordham University Law School’s Center on National Security and who has published books about Guantánamo and the terror courts, says the commissions are essentially doomed. “It’s hard to find an element of the 9/11 commissions that’s not challenged by logistics,” she says. “Whether it’s logistics of movement and transportation or logistics of the legal process, every single point seems to be impeded in the military commissions.” And she doesn’t see what’s happening now as a genuine inquiry into guilt but more as a kind of dramatization. What’s really happening here, she says, is just “perpetual detention with the patina of a court process.” One of the most likely scenarios is that the defendants just die at Guantánamo, never having been sentenced.