Chris Dodd weighs in on Guantanamo Bay.
Chris Dodd was featured on todays Diane Rehm show stumping for his bid for the presidency in 2008 and to promote his new book, “Letters from Nuremberg.” Dodd’s father, Thomas Dodd, was a prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials examining atrocities committed by the Nazi’s during World War II. Spattered with letters from the elder Dodd to his wife, the letters also highlight some of the inner diplomatic wranglings over the constructs of the tribunals. Dodd’s book highlights how the Greatest Generation paved the way to moral authority and dignity represented in the International Court and other judicial examinations of war crimes today. Finally, Dodd recollects on the relevancy to current times, citing the choice the U.S. is faced with between security and the civil rights. Dodd reflects that the United States has lost its moral authority in the current scandals surrounding Abu Ghraib and various detention and rendition practices. Dodd comments that the processes in place in Guantanamo, for examples, are reprehensible.