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
“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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
Speaking at the former Governing Council building on the morning of June 28, 2004, Coalition Provisional Authority leader in Iraq L. Paul Bremer read a letter “formally transferring sovereignty to the Iraqi people and their government. It concluded, ‘We welcome Iraq’s steps to take its rightful place of equality and honor among the nations of […]
6/28/2004
FBI Special Agent George Piro and Saddam Hussein discussed the Iraq-al Qaeda relationship on June 28, 2004. Saddam “stated the Iraqi government did not cooperate with BIN LADEN. SSA [Supervisory Special Agent] Piro asked HUSSEIN ‘why not’ since Iraq and BIN LADEN had the same enemies, United States and Saudi Arabia. SSA Piro then cited […]
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In the Supreme Court decision in Rasul v. Bush on June 28, 2004, which ruled 6-3 in favor of the Guantanamo detainees, “Justice Sandra Day O’Connor…famously scolded the White House for providing the prisoners with no legal process at all. ‘A state of war is not a blank check,’ she emphasized, and the commander in […]
6/28/2004
“In a stunning rebuke to [President] Bush and [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s grandiose position on executive power, on June 28, 2004, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the lawyers for the Guantanamo detainees in two separate landmark cases. …Guantanamo Bay was not beyond the reach of U.S. law. …the executive branch could not hold […]
6/28/2004
In an interview that ran in Time magazine on June 28, 2004, former President Bill Clinton said: ” ‘After 9/11, let’s be fair here, if you had been President, you’d think, Well, this fellow bin Laden just turned these three airplanes full of fuel into weapons of mass destruction, right?…Well, my first responsibility now is […]