Jonathan Hafetz

Jonathan Hafetz is an American lawyer and writer.cite news
url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqojNIPF7zZ2IQtXyZGI0BO8D4OQD91DUSL80
title=US asks to rewrite detainee evidence
publisher=Associated Press
author=Matt Apuzzo
date=June 20 2008
accessdate=2008-06-21
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fap.google.com%2Farticle%2FALeqM5gqojNIPF7zZ2IQtXyZGI0BO8D4OQD91DUSL80&date=2008-06-21 mirror] ] Hafetz works for the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, where he "directs litigation for the Liberty and National Security Project".cite news
url=http://www.brennancenter.org/people/hafetz_jonathan
title=Jonathan Hafetz
publisher=Brennan Center for Justice
accessdate=2008-06-21
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/hafetz
title=Supreme Court Deals Death Blow to Gitmo
publisher=The Nation
author=Jonathan Hafetz
date=June 12, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-01
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Fdoc%2F20080630%2Fhafetz&date=2008-06-21 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061023/hafetz
title=No Blank Checks on Torture
publisher=The Nation
author=Jonathan Hafetz
date=October 9, 2006
accessdate=2008-06-21
quote= [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Fdoc%2F20061023%2Fhafetz&date=2008-06-21 mirror] ] cite news
url=http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/boumediene-guest-commentary-jonathan-hafetz-of-the-brennan-center/
title=Boumediene Guest Commentary: Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center
publisher=Scotusblog
author=Jonathan Hafetz
date=June 16, 2008
accessdate=2008-06-21
quote=] cite news
url=http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/000535.html
title=TD Blog Interview with Jonathan Hafetz
publisher=The Talking Dog
author=Jonathan Hafetz
date=April 16, 2006
accessdate=2008-06-21
quote=] He is notable for volunteering to serve to assist Guantanamo captives to access the US Justice system. Prior to his career at the Brennan Center, Hafetz was a Gibbons fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons, P.C., an attorney for the ACLU Immigrants' Rights project, and a law clerk to both Jed S. Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

On June 20 2008 the "Associated Press" reported that the Government wanted to "rewrite detainee evidence". The impetus to rewrite the evidence is a reaction to the Supreme Court's June 12 2008 ruling on Boumediene v. Bush. The Supreme Court had ruled that Guantanamo captives were entitled to challenge the basis for their detention through the US Justice System, because the Combatant Status Review Tribunals were not an adequate substitute for habeas corpus. According to the "Associated Press": quotation|"At a closed-door meeting with judges and defense attorneys this week, government lawyers said they needed time to add new evidence and make other changes to evidentiary documents known as 'factual returns.'"

The "Associated Press" quoted Hafetz reaction to this development.

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