Guantanamo Bay: An Inside Look at a Constitutional Crisis
Tom Fleener
Monday, 17 Sep 2007 at 8:00 pm – Campanile Room, Memorial Union
Tom Fleener is an attorney and former Guantanamo Bay military defense counsel and has been an outspoken critic and public commentator on the use of special military trials for terrorist suspects. He served as an Army JAG officer for eight years both prosecuting and defending soldiers around the world. A native Iowan and graduate of Ames High School, Fleener left the active Army in 2003 to take an appointment as an Assistant Federal Public Defender and was recalled to active duty in 2005 to represent alleged al Qaeda propagandist Ali Hamza al Bahlul of Yemen. During the two years in the Office of Military Commissions in Washington, D.C., he made several appearances before a military commission in Guantanamo Bay, until ultimately convincing Congress to afford detainees choice of counsel. Constitution Day Lecture and part of the World Affairs Series.Cosponsored By:
- Society of Professional Journalists
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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