A June 29, 2004, editorial in The Los Angeles Times said, regarding the Supreme Court’s rulings the previous day in Rasul v. Bush and Hamdi v. Rumsfeld: ” ‘It’s hard to see what is left of American freedom if the government has the authority to make anyone on its soil–citizen or non-citizen–disappear and then rule […]
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6/29/2004
According to The New York Times on June 29, 2004: “William F. Buckley Jr., widely acknowledged as the founder of the modern conservative movement, wrote of the Iraq war, ‘If I knew then what I know now about what kind of situation we would be in, I would have opposed the war.’ ” – Al […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, “the U.S. Supreme Court rejected [in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld] the [Bush] administration’s effort to hold ‘enemy combatants’ without a hearing. The court warned that ‘a state of war is not a blank check for the president.’ “ – James Risen, State of War, Page 45 […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court case “Rasul v. Bush held that the federal courts would–for the first time–review the grounds for detaining alien enemy combatants held outside the United States.” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 13 […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, “In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the [Supreme] Court required that American citizens captured abroad must have access to a lawyer and a fair hearing before a neutral judge.” – John Yoo, War By Other Means, Page 130 […]
6/28/2004
“On June 28 [2004], at 10:26 A.M., in a small, nearly secret ceremony inside the heavily fortified Green Zone, [Coalition Provisional Authority leader L. Paul] Bremer handed Ayad Allawi, the interim prime minister, a leather-bound note from [President] Bush indicating that the Coalition Provisional Authority was dissolved. [National Security Advisor Condoleezza] Rice, who was with […]
6/28/2004
On June 28, 2004, “the Supreme Court issued the first of its decisions rejecting the Bush administration’s positions on terrorism, by holding in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that the Constitution did not provide the president with a ‘blank check.’ Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, writing for the Court, warned that an unaccountable executive could make mistakes, including […]
6/28/2004
By the time the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) transferred power to the Iraqi Interim Government on June 28, 2004, “Because of bureaucratic delays, only 2 percent of the $18.4 billion Supplemental had been spent. Nothing had been expended on construction, health care, sanitation, or the provision of clean water, and more money had been devoted […]
6/28/2004
The United States ended its occupation of Iraq on June 28, 2004, when Coalition Provisional Authority Director L. Paul Bremer met with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, President Ghazi al-Yawar, Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih and Chief Justice Mahdi Mahmoud. ” ‘The task of the Coalition Provisional Authority will end on the twenty-eighth of June, and […]
6/28/2004
“Before [Director of the Coalition Provisional Authority L. Paul] Bremer left [Iraq, on June 28, 2004] he signed a hundred orders in all. Some were essential. Order 96 established rules for elections. Order 21 modified the penal code. Order 19 guaranteed freedom of assembly. But many others were aspirational or just plain unnecessary in a […]