Word: mendelson
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...later this month - it would complicate any Venezuelan plans to export uranium to the country, since it would be widely viewed as aiding and abetting a rogue nuclear-weapons program. "In that event, the world is watching whether Venezuela seems poised to cross any international legal boundaries," says Johanna Mendelson Forman, a senior associate for the Americas at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. "But it's still too early to tell what Venezuela is really doing." (Read a story about the negotiations over Iran's nukes...
...decade to develop a nuclear-power industry, let alone a nuclear bomb. (Only Brazil, Argentina and Mexico produce nuclear power in the region.) What's more, Venezuela is a signatory to the 1967 Tlatelolco Treaty, which prohibits the development of nuclear weapons in Latin America. Even so, says Mendelson, "the U.S. is worried that Venezuela has become a platform for the entrance of Iranian mischief in the hemisphere." If Iran is building a bomb, she adds, the U.S. may well assume that Tehran is interested in slipping that technology to Venezuela as well...
...plan to bundle together civilian and military courts is intended to address some of the security concerns by removing any need to move the detainees once they first arrive at the facility. But Sarah Mendelson of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says the plan isn't just "very odd, and unprecedented," it is also unnecessary: U.S. courts have successfully tried and sentenced 145 terrorists since the attacks of 9/11...
...system works, there's no need for a hybrid," says Mendelson, author of "Closing Guantánamo," a report by the CSIS working group on Gitmo and U.S. detention policies. By trying to create a new facility, the Obama Administration would risk legal challenges and "it would look to others that instead of closing Gitmo, we're just moving...
...detainees is a more difficult question. A proposal to move some of them to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas met with fierce bipartisan opposition from the state's Democratic governor, Kathleen Sebelius, and its Republican Senators, Sam Brownback and Lynn Jenkins. Other states may prove equally resistant. Sarah E. Mendelson of CSIS says the best solution may be to scatter the Gitmo detainees across several jails. "There's no need for them to be in one place, in one prison," she says...