The guardian
Can a veteran prosecutor whip the Department of Homeland Security into shape? Michael Chertoff ’78 has already started.
Letter from Baghdad
Nick Brown ’02 gained fame as a contestant on the reality show “Survivor.” Today his reality is the Green Zone in Baghdad, where he carries a laptop and a rifle as a U.S. Army JAG officer.
Code red
Christopher Cox ’76 (’77) and Jane Harman ’69 sit on different sides of the aisle, but the urgent threat of terrorism unites them.
Honor Bound
In a nondescript building in suburban Virginia, two subway stops from the Pentagon, a team of a half dozen or so defense lawyers works on what is perhaps the toughest–and most controversial–legal assignment in America.
Defending One, for All
Last spring, an Oregon attorney named Brandon Mayfield was arrested by the FBI and jailed for two weeks. He was suspected of being linked to the Madrid train bombings, thanks to the FBI’s mistaken match of a fingerprint to a print found on a bag of detonators near the scene.
I Spy
In his recent book, “The Great Game: The Myth and Reality of Espionage,” Frederick P. Hitz ’64 gives credence to the saying that truth can be stranger than fiction.
Inside out
It was December 2002 when House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt called Jamie Gorelick ’75 to offer her the last Democratic slot on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.
Legislative proposals headed for Congress
Professor Philip Heymann ’60 and his colleague from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Juliette Kayyem ’95 say Congress should provide much-needed legislation to deal with a number of issues that have emerged in the last three years in the fight against terrorism.
Getting real
Ever since Professor Philip Heymann ’60 began teaching a class on terrorism in the winter of 1988, it’s drawn a crowd.
Talking about terror
A Harvard Law School professor says a unilateral war on terror will not succeed. His solution: contain and isolate extremists by repairing frayed alliances and finding common ground with mainstream Islam.