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Linda Greenhouse The Mystery of Guantanamo Bay Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who served as The New York Times Supreme Court correspondent from 1978 to 2008, except for two years during the mid-1980s, in which she covered Congress. Greenhouse joined the Times in 1968, and before taking on the Supreme Court assignment she covered local and state politics in New York. In January 2009, Greenhouse will join the faculty of Yale Law School, where, as the Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Senior Fellow, she will teach courses and advise students. Jefferson lecture description: In the weeks following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration made the fateful decision to house "enemy combatants" captured in the war against the Taliban at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- out of reach, the administration believed, of the ordinary civilian and military justice systems. Three times over nearly seven years, the Supreme Court pushed back and told the President that he had made the wrong call. Yet in all those years, not a single detainee has been ordered released, against the government's will, by the authority of any institution. That is the mystery of Guantanamo Bay. What happened, and what does this saga tell us about our political and legal institutions, their relationships, and their commitment to the rule of law?
Linda Greenhouse interview (Conversations with History interview with Harry Kreisler)
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