{"id":5305,"date":"2013-02-22T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=5305"},"modified":"2013-02-22T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T17:22:17","slug":"democracy-now-looks-inside-the-terror-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/02\/democracy-now-looks-inside-the-terror-courts.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Democracy Now!&#8217;: Riveting Look at the Terror Courts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><CENTER><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2013\/2\/22\/the_terror_courts_an_inside_look\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/CENTER><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wall Street Journal journalist Jess Bravin reports on the controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Describing it as <strong>\u201cthe most important legal story in decades,\u201d<\/strong> Bravin uncovers how the Bush administration quickly drew up an alternative legal system to try men captured abroad after the Sept. 11 attacks. Soon evidence obtained by torture was being used to prosecute prisoners, but some military officers refused to take part. We speak to Jess Bravin, author of &#8220;The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guant\u00e1namo Bay,\u201d and to Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, a former Guant\u00e1namo prosecutor featured in the book. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2013\/2\/22\/the_terror_courts_an_inside_look?autostart=true&#038;get_clicky_key=suggested_next_story\">Democracy Now!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal journalist Jess Bravin reports on the controversial military commissions at Guantanamo. Describing it as \u201cthe most important legal story in decades,\u201d Bravin uncovers how the Bush administration quickly drew up an alternative legal system to try men captured abroad after the Sept. 11 attacks. Soon evidence obtained by torture was being used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-media","7":"category-political-culture","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1nz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}