“The [Supreme] Court ruled [in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, on June 29, 2006] that the president [Bush], even in war, was bound by laws and treaties, including the Geneva Conventions. He had no right to unilaterally appoint military commissions using his own rules. The judgment had numerous ramifications, not the least of which was that if Geneva’s rules applied to terror suspects, the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogations’ were potentially war crimes. People could be prosecuted.”
– Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Page 323