Of all the reports that have come out of Salim Hamdan's trial for providing support for terrorism, the first U.S. war crimes hearing since World War II, one of the oddest was the testimony of Michael St. Ours. St. Ours, an agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, interrogated Hamdan and testified to the contents of those interrogations as a witness for the prosecution in the trial, which now sits with the jury.
In the course of his testimony St. Ours explained the al-Qaida organizational structure that Hamdan had … more…
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Jamie Hodari is entering his final year as a graduate student at both Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. He was previously a writer for the Times of India in New Delhi, India, and has also worked at the House of Representatives Office of Legislative Counsel, the Department of Justice and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.