On November 10, 2001, Vice President Dick “Cheney had chaired a small White House meeting in which the participants approved a directive on what to do with prisoners of the Afghan war. …The November 10 directive authorized the United States to detain anyone suspected of terrorism, allowed them to be held indefinitely, and stripped them of any access to civilian or military courts. The detainees would be tried instead by closed military tribunals with no promise of a presumption of innocence. By January [2002], the [Bush] administration would decide that the detainees were ‘unlawful combatants; who had no rights under the Geneva Conventions, and that they would be imprisoned on the southeastern tip of Cuba at the U.S. Navy facility at Guantanamo Bay–far away from American shores and courts.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 170