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...insufficient to simply label detainees “enemy combatants?? and forget about issues of their legal status—in an conflict of undeterminable length such as the War on Terror, this is tantamount to renouncing all of a prisoner’s rights...
...communications director for the Dems, Samuel B. Novey ’11, said he thinks the issue should hit home with students because citizens of the United States are just as susceptible to being labeled “enemy combatants?? as foreigners...
...court. This de facto suspension of habeas corpus applies to foreign aliens as well as U.S. permanent residents, to those who have committed hostile acts as well as many who have not. Most frighteningly, it applies to detainees against whom military prosecutors lack enough evidence to classify as enemy combatants??but who may nonetheless be kept in Guantanamo limbo indefinitely...
...9/11 was like manna from heaven,” as it resulted in the war on terror and gave license to attack the concept of multilateralism. Sands then explained how lawyers working for the Defense Department created the legally unprecedented category of “unlawful combatants?? to deny captured suspects the rights that covenants like Geneva were supposed to protect. Sands also cited administration memos arguing that interrogation rules mandated by conventions on torture could be overruled at the order of the U.S. President. Because of their arguments, Sands said, members of the Bush administration?...
...assorted terror suspects and “enemy combatants?? held in limbo by the United States, there’s little more for one to do than hope that they will be brought to justice and held to account for their loathsome actions, but in a manner consistent with the enlightened form of justice embodied by international law and envisioned by the framers of America’s constitution...