Word: hamdan
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...other part of the dispute emerged from a Supreme Court decision last summer in the case of a Guantanamo prisoner named Hamdan. The court ruled that the prisoner was entitled to additional due process rights at trial, a move that required Congress to define those rights in statute...
...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
...humiliating and degrading treatment.” The Bush administration has been unequivocal in stating that the United States is at war, yet for the last five years Bush has acted as if the Conventions do not apply. The Supreme Court found this summer in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that Common Article Three does indeed apply to the war with Al Qaeda. That holding “put in question the future of the CIA Program,” according to the White House. Bush has responded by proposing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, and demanded in a September...
...Tortured Negotiations White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
...threat of prosecution comes not from some left-wing activists or even the House Democrats, but from the highest court in the country. In his concurring opinion in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case last summer, Justice Anthony Kennedy said that the administration had to live within the Geneva Conventions. "Violations [of the Geneva Conventions] are considered 'war crimes,' punishable as federal offenses, when committed by or against United States nationals and military personnel," he wrote. And for emphasis, Kennedy pointed to paragraph 2441 of the U.S. code, which lays out the penalties for those violations, including life imprisonment...