9/6/2006

In a speech in the East Room of the White House on the afternoon of September 6 [2006], the president [Bush] announced the transfer of fourteen ‘high-profile terror suspects’ held secretly by the CIA–including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the man accused of masterminding the September 11 attacks–to Guantanamo Bay. He also urged Congress to authorize new military commissions to put terror suspects on trial. The commissions would replace those struck down as unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in June [29, 2006].”

 – Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 298