On June 30, 2006, following the Supreme Court ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which said the Bush Administration did not have the authority to try detainees via military commissions, an article in The Washington Post said: ” ‘For five years, President Bush waged war as he saw fit. If intelligence officers needed to eavesdrop on […]
6/29/2006
“Following the Supreme Court Hamdan decision [on June 29, 2006] requiring the [Bush] administration to respect the Geneva Convention’s ban on ‘humiliating and degrading treatment’ of prisoners, the CIA prohibited its operatives from waterboarding, a practice that the Agency had ended, in any event, in 2003.” – Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 113 […]
6/29/2006
On June 29, 2006, “the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld that the military commissions the [Bush] administration had created to try the Guantanamo detainees were illegal. The principal flaw, the Court said, was that the president had established them without authorization from Congress. It was [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s secret directive back […]
6/29/2006
“In June [29] 2006, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, a 5-3 majority of the Supreme Court held that [President] Bush’s military commissions did not meet the standards set out in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). In effect, the Court tossed back to Congress the question of precisely how and whether to conduct military commissions, […]
6/29/2006
Presidential Advisor Karl Rove claimed enhanced interrogation techniques were not constituted as torture, or in violation of the Geneva Conventions, saying: “until the flawed [June 29] 2006 Supreme Court decision Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, the Geneva Conventions’ ‘Common Article III’ protections were intended to cover civil wars, not international terrorist attacks. Broader Geneva protections were meant […]
6/29/2006
“Senator John McCain [R-AZ] has tried to pressure the White House to forcefully renounce torture in its treatment of detainees. McCain sponsored antitorture legislation passed by Congress, but after [President] Bush signed the bill into law, he issued one of his controversial ‘signing statements’ saying, in effect, that he did not have to obey it. […]
6/29/2006
Following the Supreme Court's June 29, 2006, decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which said President Bush had to abide by the Geneva Conventions in the war on terror, Bush considered drafting legislation to reverse the decision. Secretary of State Condoleezza "Rice intervened, making a personal plea to Bush, saying, according to a witness, 'Mr. President, […]
6/29/2006
“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 […]
6/29/2006
“On June 29, 2006, less than a year after [legal counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, David] Addington called the effort to revive the Geneva Conventions an ‘abomination,’ the Supreme Court ruled emphatically [in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ] that the Bush Administration had to abide by these [Geneva Convention] laws in its war on terror.” […]
6/29/2006
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld “was obviously upset about the Supreme Court decision a week earlier [June 29, 2006] in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld ruling that the Bush administration in effect had to respect the rights of terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to have lawyers and trials. Rumsfeld felt they should be interrogated […]