“On November 13, 2001…President Bush issued a military order formally appointing the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld] as the ‘detention authority’ for captured prisoners and for establishing the outlines of a justice system to try them. The order was the product of a series of discussions between White House and Justice Department lawyers. The President’s order required that the Defense Department establish facilities to house suspected terrorists and conduct ‘military commissions to sit at any time and any place, consistent with such guidance regarding time and place as the Secretary of Defense may provide.’ ”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 556