Basic Documents about the Treatment of the Detainees at Guantánamo and Abu GhraibW. Frederick Zimmerman Nimble Books LLC, 2004 - 336 páginas Read This Book If: You are interested in understanding the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay during the war on terror that began 9/11/2001 and the prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib following the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The book contains six basic substantive documents which provide essential information and context: * Major General Antonio M. Taguba's summary of his initial investigation of reported abuses at Abu Ghraib (the "Taguba Report"); * The Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; * The Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War; * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Rasul v. Bush; * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld; and * The opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States in Rumsfeld v. Padilla. Every citizen of the United States and the world should read these documents in their entirety. Every library should have a copy of this book. |
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... filed locally Suspended by BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , 17 January 2004 ; Pending Relief for Cause , for dereliction of duty 3 ) . LTC Dale Burtyk , Commander , 400th 25 BASIC DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE DETAINEES.
... filed locally Suspended by BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , 17 January 2004 ; Pending Relief for Cause , for dereliction of duty 3 ) . LTC Dale Burtyk , Commander , 400th 25 BASIC DOCUMENTS ABOUT THE DETAINEES.
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... filed locally . 5 ) . MAJ Stacy Garrity , Finance Officer , 800th MP Brigade • GOMOR from LTG McKiernan , Commander CFLCC , on 25 May 2003 , for violation of CENTCOM General Order # 1 , consuming alcohol with an NCO ; filed locally . 6 ...
... filed locally . 5 ) . MAJ Stacy Garrity , Finance Officer , 800th MP Brigade • GOMOR from LTG McKiernan , Commander CFLCC , on 25 May 2003 , for violation of CENTCOM General Order # 1 , consuming alcohol with an NCO ; filed locally . 6 ...
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... filed locally . 12 ) SGM Marc Emerson , Operations SGM , 320th MP Battalion , • Two GO Letters of Concern and a verbal reprimand from BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , for failing to adhere to the guidance / directives given ...
... filed locally . 12 ) SGM Marc Emerson , Operations SGM , 320th MP Battalion , • Two GO Letters of Concern and a verbal reprimand from BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , for failing to adhere to the guidance / directives given ...
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... filed . • Failing to take corrective action and implement recommendations from various 15-6 investigations even after receiving a GOMOR from BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , on 10 November 03 , for failing to take corrective ...
... filed . • Failing to take corrective action and implement recommendations from various 15-6 investigations even after receiving a GOMOR from BG Karpinski , Commander 800th MP Brigade , on 10 November 03 , for failing to take corrective ...
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Página 40 - Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause...
Página 227 - ... [T]he very nature of executive decisions as to foreign policy is political, not judicial. Such decisions are wholly confided by our Constitution to the political departments of the government, Executive and Legislative. They are delicate, complex, and involve large elements of prophecy. They are and should be undertaken only by those directly responsible to the people whose welfare they advance or imperil. They are decisions of a kind for which the Judiciary has neither aptitude, facilities nor...
Página 191 - Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.
Página 87 - ... Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts. It may also, if it prefers, and in accordance with the provisions of its own legislation, hand such persons over for trial to another High Contracting Party concerned, provided such High Contracting Party has made out a prima facie case.
Página 183 - No citizen shall be imprisoned or otherwise detained by the United States except pursuant to an Act of Congress.
Página 171 - It would indeed be ironic if, in the name of national defense, we would sanction the subversion of one of those liberties — the freedom of association — which makes the defense of the Nation worthwhile.
Página 224 - These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or define the extent and variety of national exigencies, or the correspondent extent and variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them.
Página 210 - It can serve no useful purpose to inquire what those laws and usages are, whence they originated, where found, and on whom they operate; they can never be applied to citizens in States which have upheld the authority of the government, and where the courts are open and their process unobstructed.
Página 186 - This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, private as well as public. We see it particularly displayed in all the subordinate distributions of power ; where the constant aim is, to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other ; that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.