Memo to lawmakers: consider our values
Christian Science Monitor
by Steven R. Ratner
08/08/06
The White House and Congress are embroiled in negotiations over legislation to address the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was handed down at the end of June. That decision ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay for terrorism offenses violate both federal statute and US treaty obligations. But the debates over the new law lose sight of far-reaching aspects of the court's decision for all detainees in US custody worldwide, not just the handful the US proposes to try...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0808/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
by Steven R. Ratner
08/08/06
The White House and Congress are embroiled in negotiations over legislation to address the Supreme Court's ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was handed down at the end of June. That decision ruled that the military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantánamo Bay for terrorism offenses violate both federal statute and US treaty obligations. But the debates over the new law lose sight of far-reaching aspects of the court's decision for all detainees in US custody worldwide, not just the handful the US proposes to try...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0808/p09s01-coop.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hamdan
rudkla - 9. Aug, 15:41
