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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Aug. 21, 2008

A Different Kind of Hero

The attorneys who stood up to the government's appalling military commissions should be applauded for taking on great risk to their military and legal careers, writes Gary Williams. - Forum Column

FORUM COLUMN

By Gary Williams
This article appears on Page 6

      In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, politicians and pundits said "everything changed." The shape of war is one thing that changed. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in a July 21, 2008, speech given to the American Enterprise Institute, described this new type of war. Mukasey said "the war on terror is a different sort of war ... a fight against non-st...

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