A West Point law professor has resigned after arguing that fellow legal scholars who criticize the war on terrorism are “treasonous” and should be arrested, interrogated and even attacked as “unlawful enemy combatants.”

William C. Bradford resigned from his post on Sunday following an uproar over a paper titled Trahison des Professeurs (Treason of the Professors), published in the National Security Law Journal in July.

In an e-mail to The Washington Post, Bradford confirmed that he had resigned from his position as assistant law professor but doubled down on his argument.

“I stand by my article,” he wrote, arguing that it had been “taken out of context” by people who had not read it. “I would suggest that the best approach to the problem I outline is competition in the marketplace of ideas.”

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