In August, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pulled out of plea agreements with three defendants on trial in the Sept. 11 case in Guantánamo. Brigadier General (ret.) John Baker, member of CERL’s Executive Board, spoke with Natalie Orpett of Lawfare in an episode of The Lawfare Podcast about the case and why the Secretary of Defense reversed course.

Brigadier General (ret.) John Baker, U.S. Marine Corps, leads the Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina. He served as the Chief Defense Counsel of the Guantánamo Military Commissions from 2015 through 2021.

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