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A View Toward a National Security Court

By Bill West

Yesterday, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) ran an article reflecting upon what may be an existing template for what some have called for in the ongoing legal battles combating terrorism...the creation of a National Security Court. Such a court might be a hybrid of Federal civilian courts, military courts and the current military commission tribunals. That said, since around 1997, the United States has had an operable, if not operating, version of a National Security Court. Read more here.