Yeah, yeah, it’s short notice, but if you’ve got a lunch break to kill, there’s no better way to spend it today than heading down to the City Club’s Friday Forum to see Steven Wax talk about representing people that Bush has illegally detained in Cuba.

From the City Club’s website:

Wax and his staff have been assigned by the federal court in Washington, D.C. to represent seven men who have been imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay for nearly five years. He will speak about his staff’s investigation in the war zones in Afghanistan and Pakistan as they tracked down sworn evidence of his clients’ innocence and, based on his trips to Guantanamo, about the reality of life in the prisons.

Wax will tell the stories of the lives of several of his clients—a hospital administrator and charity worker, a baker and a man suspected of being a U.S. and Israeli spy, who was tortured by the Taliban before being captured by our government and sent to Guantanamo. The imprisonment of the hospital administrator so offended an Army major who reviewed his case that he called the detention “unconscionable.”

Finally, Wax will describe the U.S. government’s obstruction of the detainees’ efforts to have a fair trial, the U.S. Supreme Court’s two rebukes that the federal courts have no jurisdiction to hear the detainees’ cases and the importance of the writ of habeas corpus as a check on executive power.

But will he answer this question: When do we get to throw George W. Bush in prison?

Friday, February 16
12:15pm
Governor Hotel, 614 SW 11th Ave.
$5 for general seating