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...prisoner didn't trust his lawyer at thestart, refusing even to speak with her. She did what she could to win his confidence, donning a hijab, the head covering worn by observant Muslim women, when she visited him at Camp Delta at the U.S. Naval Base in Guant??namo Bay, Cuba. Eventually, he began to ask how his aging father in Saudi Arabia made contact with her, how he could be sure she was not another interrogator trying to extract more information from him. "He asked me the same questions over and over," says Gitanjali Gutierrez. "He desperately sought...
Sure, the domestic-surveillanceprogram makes sense for protecting Americans. But what if it results in throwing even more people into the prison at Guant??namo or perhaps the invasion of yet another Middle Eastern country? Then we might discover that such U.S. actions were also based on faulty intelligence. ALY MAREI London...
...WHERE THINGS STAND In 2004 the Supreme Court rejected the Administration's argument of Executive authority and gave enemy combatants held at the U.S. naval base in Guant??namo Bay, Cuba, the right to contest their incarceration in federal court. But a bipartisan bill approved by Congress last month and now before the President will deny foreign terrorism suspects the right to challenge the conditions of their detention in federal court, which some experts say will effectively overturn the Supreme Court ruling...
...trouble. In its Hamdi ruling, the Supreme Court also challenged the Administration's policy of depriving suspected terrorists designated enemy combatants of any legal review. The court ordered the government to develop a process that would allow the more than 600 enemy combatants at the U.S. naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detention...
...Storming the Court” is immersed in law, focusing on the protracted legal battles that now-Yale Law Dean Harold H. Koh ’75 and a shifting band of students fought against the elder Bush and Clinton administrations on behalf of Haitian refugees detained at Guant??namo Bay. The book began as a tale about America’s occasional betrayal of its age-old reputation as a haven for refugees. “After 9/11, it is also a cautionary tale about how we use our naval base at Guantanamo as an extralegal camp without...