{{short description|American lawyer and writer}} '''Jonathan Hafetz''' is an American lawyer and writer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Apuzzo |first=Matt |author-link=Matt Apuzzo |date=2008-06-21 |title=U.S. asks to rewrite detainee evidence |url=https://www.jamestownsun.com/news/u-s-asks-to-rewrite-detainee-evidence |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Nvi2t |archive-date=2026-03-23 |access-date=2026-03-23 |website=Jamestown Sun |language=en |agency=Associated Press}}</ref>
== Career == Hafetz is professor of law at Seton Hall Law School.<ref name="SetonHallFaculty">{{cite web |title = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = Seton Hall University |url = http://law.shu.edu/faculty/full-time/jonathan-hafetz.cfm |accessdate = May 30, 2017 }}</ref> He formerly worked as a senior attorney for the National Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.<ref name="BrennanCenter">{{cite news |title = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = Brennan Center for Justice |url = http://www.brennancenter.org/people/hafetz_jonathan |accessdate = June 21, 2008 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080704191708/http://www.brennancenter.org/people/hafetz_jonathan/ |archivedate = July 4, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="TheNation20080612">{{cite news |title = Supreme Court Deals Death Blow to Gitmo |author = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = The Nation |date = June 12, 2008 |url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/hafetz |accessdate = June 21, 2008 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080828133043/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080630/hafetz |archivedate = August 28, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="TheNation20061009">{{cite news |url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061023/hafetz |title = No Blank Checks on Torture |author = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = The Nation |date = October 9, 2006 |accessdate = June 21, 2008 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080618040745/http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061023/hafetz |archivedate = June 18, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="Scotusblog20080616"> {{cite news |title = Boumediene Guest Commentary: Jonathan Hafetz of the Brennan Center |author = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = Scotusblog |date = June 16, 2008 |url = http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/boumediene-guest-commentary-jonathan-hafetz-of-the-brennan-center/ |url-status = dead |accessdate = June 21, 2008 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080618042758/http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/boumediene-guest-commentary-jonathan-hafetz-of-the-brennan-center/ |archivedate = June 18, 2008 }}</ref><ref name="TheTalkingDog20060416">{{cite news |title = TD Blog Interview with Jonathan Hafetz |author = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = The Talking Dog |date = April 16, 2006 |url = http://thetalkingdog.com/archives2/000535.html |accessdate = June 21, 2008 }}</ref> He has also served as a lawyer for Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, who from 2003 to 2008, was the sole enemy combatant held in extrajudicial detention in the continental USA.<ref name="Slate2008-04-07">{{cite news |title = A guest post from Jonathan Hafetz |author = Jonathan Hafetz |date = April 7, 2009 |publisher = Slate magazine |url = http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/07/a-guest-post-from-jonathan-hafetz.aspx |access-date = April 8, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090306074557/http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/04/07/a-guest-post-from-jonathan-hafetz.aspx |archivedate = March 6, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="AcluAlMarriHafetz">{{cite news |title = Statement of Jonathan Hafetz on Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli |author = Jonathan Hafetz |date = September 30, 2008 |publisher = ACLU |url = https://www.aclu.org/scotus/2008term/36981res20080930.html |access-date = December 4, 2016 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20090410210548/http://www.aclu.org/scotus/2008term/36981res20080930.html |archivedate = April 10, 2009 }}</ref><ref name="Salon2008-10-10">{{cite news |title = Salon Radio: ACLU's Jonathan Hafetz on Guantanamo cases |author = Glenn Greenwald |publisher = Salon magazine |date = October 10, 2008 |url = http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/radio/2008/10/10/hafetz/ }}</ref> Prior to his career at the ACLU, Hafetz served as litigation director for the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law and as a Gibbons fellow in public interest and constitutional law at Gibbons, P.C. He was also 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.<ref name=BrennanCenter/> Hafetz is a graduate of Yale Law School.<ref name="HuffPost2009-04-08">{{cite news |title = Torturegate |author = Jonathan Hafetz |publisher = Huffington Post |date = October 27, 2007 |url = http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-hafetz |access-date = April 8, 2009 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080101074313/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-hafetz/#blogger_bio |archivedate = January 1, 2008 }}</ref> From 2014-15, Hafetz was a visiting professor in the law and public affairs program at Princeton University.
On June 20, 2008 the ''Associated Press'' reported that government officials wanted to "rewrite detainee evidence".<ref name=":0" /> 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 article:
{{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.<ref name=":0" />
{{quotation|It's a totally fishy maneuver that suggests that the government wants, at the 11th hour, to get its ducks in a row.}}
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