NPR on "Guantanamo North"

Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, March 3, 2011, 4:18 PM
Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams of National Public Radio have a very interesting two-part series on what they call "Guantanamo North"--"two secretive units for convicted terrorists and other inmates who get 24-hour surveillance, right here in the U.S." It's a remarkable report on an underreported aspect of the terrorist detention-prosecution-imprisonment story: What happens to suspected terrorists who aren't at Guantanamo? Here is Part I.
Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams of National Public Radio have a very interesting two-part series on what they call "Guantanamo North"--"two secretive units for convicted terrorists and other inmates who get 24-hour surveillance, right here in the U.S." It's a remarkable report on an underreported aspect of the terrorist detention-prosecution-imprisonment story: What happens to suspected terrorists who aren't at Guantanamo? Here is Part I. Here is Part II.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
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