The busy season
The American Prospect
by Jonathan Hafetz
09/05/06
Congress returns from recess this month to confront fundamental questions presented by the president's five-year long global 'war on terrorism.' On the table is nothing less than the future scope of presidential power, with battles looming over military trials, detainee treatment, and domestic surveillance. In the past several months, courts have dealt the administration a series of setbacks on these issues. Undeterred, the president intends to reverse those defeats by asking lawmakers for even greater authority. The ball is now in their court. Military trials top the legislative agenda. The impetus is the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld striking down the president's military commissions at Guantanamo Bay...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11946
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Jonathan Hafetz
09/05/06
Congress returns from recess this month to confront fundamental questions presented by the president's five-year long global 'war on terrorism.' On the table is nothing less than the future scope of presidential power, with battles looming over military trials, detainee treatment, and domestic surveillance. In the past several months, courts have dealt the administration a series of setbacks on these issues. Undeterred, the president intends to reverse those defeats by asking lawmakers for even greater authority. The ball is now in their court. Military trials top the legislative agenda. The impetus is the Supreme Court's recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld striking down the president's military commissions at Guantanamo Bay...
http://www.prospect.org/web/view-web.ww?id=11946
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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