Then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice wrote: “On the evening of November 13, 2001, I learned that the President [Bush] had signed a military order earlier that day that I had not even been given. The order directed the Defense Department to establish military commissions to try detainees and issue guidance on procedures that would govern them. I did not object to the substantive arguments behind military commissions; they had World War II-era precedents, and they seemed to resolve some of my own concerns about the protection of our intelligence-gathering methods.”
– Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor, Pages 105-106