Word: namo
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...course, symbols matter. Court cases dealing with Executive power over Guantánamo detainees will directly affect relatively few people, but such cases help strike the philosophical balance between security and human rights that is relevant to the entire nation and to America's place in the world. As Harvard professor Frederick Schauer pointed out in an influential recent law-review article, however, "most of the court's agenda lies some distance from the nation's." Compounding this is the fact that the court is tackling fewer cases than at any other time in the past half-century. Last term...
...with voting rights, the death penalty, Guantánamo detainees and, in all likelihood, gun control on the docket this term, there will be plenty of fuel to heat up the rhetoric again. The question is whether Roberts and his colleagues will put away their matches...
...picked up by the army during operations. Such labeling allows for the skirting of the Third Geneva Convention, which deals with prisoners of war. Even the Supreme Court has not offered a great deal of clarity on this issue, deciding in 2004 that detaining without trial at Guantánamo was legal, and deciding in 2006 that, in fact, special executive tribunals violated the Geneva Convention. The government’s mislabeling amounts to a deliberate attempt to create legal ambiguity and a screen for the army’s actions...
Lieut. Colonel Ed Bush, military spokesman, on the discovery that two Guantánamo detainees were wearing unauthorized underwear and swim trunks. As the Navy investigated the security breach, the attorney representing the Speedo wearer noted that his client "is hardly in a position to go swimming, since the only available water is the toilet in his cell...
...nation into a war without end. Some of the Bush Administration's policies, like improved intelligence sharing between countries and our own agencies, have made the U.S. better at fighting terrorism. But others, from the war in Iraq to the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, have actually made the task much more difficult. The challenge for the next President will be focusing on and adapting the good tools and jettisoning the bad. Whether you conclude Giuliani can win this war depends ultimately on whether you think we are winning...