Todd Pierce knows a lot about the Guantanamo Detention Camp. As a Major with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corp his job was to defend three of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay and considers indefinite detention a form of torture.
Todd is also a military historian and believes that George W. Bush’s famous quote “You are either with us or against us” made the USA a de factor Authoritarian government. He claims that Bush & Cheney turned to Civil War precedents to create military tribunals for trying alleged “terrorists.”
Furthermore he believes that Edward Snowden’s revelations of the restricted access to information by those who govern us severely restricts the way a fair society can function. He has unique insights on the problems of the NSA, unmanned drone strike policy, and the arcane law know as the Espionage Act of 1917.
Join me in welcoming Todd Pierce for a critically important episode of London Real.
