Word: yoo
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Both Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law Anne-Marie Slaughter and Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. Yoo ’89 invoked the stipulations of the Geneva Convention—the treaty that dictates the laws of modern warfare—in debating the treatment of Afghan detainees in the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...
...Yoo, who is also a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, advocated the use of military tribunals on the basis that the Taliban and al-Qaeda network do not qualify as states whose fighters could be deemed prisoners of war (POWs...
...stop fighting,” Yoo said of the Afghan detainees. “[But] they want to try to kill some of their guards if possible. They want to try to kill any American they...
...Yoo cited efficiency, domestic security and civilian safety and the ability of military tribunals to make use of classified information as advantages of the tribunals...
...Think about the disruption and security risks if 200 to 300 prisoners were brought into the U.S.,” Yoo said...