Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
... in June 2003, Bush said al-Marri had vital information about terror plots, declared him an enemy combatant and ordered him transferred to military custody.
NION - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the administration's argument that five Algerian nationals formerly resident in Bosnia are enemy combatants and ordered their release "forthwith" . The text of his ruling is here (PDF) . It's the first time that a federal court has investigated the merits of a Bush administration claim that it possesses sufficient evidence to continue detaining a prisoner as an enemy combatant....
Unbossed (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the administration's argument that five Algerian nationals formerly resident in Bosnia are enemy combatants and ordered their release "forthwith" . The text of his ruling is here (PDF) . It's the first time that a federal court has investigated the merits of a Bush administration claim that it possesses sufficient evidence to continue detaining a prisoner as an enemy combatant....
Best of Both Worlds (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
At the minimum it's a question with some intellectual interest, because the idea that the government might need the power to designate certain people as being outside normal criminal or military law first arose with the law of piracy. Pirates were stateless actors, committing their crimes in areas with unclear jurisdiction. But one problem with taking this framework and applying it to terrorism was...
Citizen Pamphleteer (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
Having crashed into reality during their classified briefings, Team Obama is reconsidering its exceedingly naive and ignorant campaign promises concerning the War on Terror. After Obama promised on the campaign trail to limit CIA interrogations of the enemy to the non-coercive methods provided for in the Army Interrogation Manual, Team Obama is quickly back peddling away from that promise and...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
"High court could hear al-Marri case; U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on similar 'enemy combatant' cases": The Journal Star of Peoria, Illinois has posted online this evening an article that begins, "One of the most controversial legal matters in...
Israelated (Free subscription) | yesterday
Comment: The recent Supreme Court decision on Guantanmo detainees rests on a 5-4 vote, with the dissent expressing concern of its adverse impact on national security and the inevitable risk it poses to the safety of Americans. The ruling gives enemy combatants access to our court system which has no experience with national security matters, exposing classified and secret evidence...
Radio Netherlands English (Free subscription) | yesterday
A US federal judge ordered the release of five Algerian inmates of the on Thursday. After almost seven years in confinement they are no longer regarded as ‘enemy combatants'.
Donklephant (Free subscription) | yesterday
I still can’t believe we justified holding people indefinitely without access to council or hope for trial. And the following case shows just how egregious that practice was since 4 out of the 5 men ordered released weren’t even “enemy combatants.” From Wash Post: For the first time, a federal judge ordered the release yesterday of detainees [...]
The Senescent Man (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Reprint from the WSJ : Habeas corpus hearings could set terrorists free inside the U.S. By MICHAEL B. MUKASEY Last June in Boumediene v. Bush , the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in our history that aliens captured and held as enemy combatants abroad (in this case, at the Guantanamo Bay military base) had a constitutional right to challenge their detentions by filing petitions...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The Supreme Court could hand President-elect Barack Obama a delicate problem in the coming days: What to do with a suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent who is the only person detained in this country as an enemy combatant?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court could hand President-elect Barack Obama a delicate problem in the coming days: What to do with a suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent who is the only person detained in this country as an enemy combatant?
Southern Appeal (Free subscription) | yesterday
He may be back in the office by the time you read this. Here’s the text of his speech to the Fed Soc convention. And here’s his column on what Congress should do re: enemy combatants, in today’s WSJ.
Vote By Issues! (Free subscription) | yesterday
A federal judge ordered the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees Thursday, saying the government failed to show that they were “enemy combatants.” Go to Source
The Saloon dot net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last June in Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in our history that aliens captured and held as enemy combatants abroad (in this case, at the Guantanamo Bay military base) had a constitutional right to challenge their detentions by filing petitions for habeas corpus in federal court. The Court recognized that its holding was unprecedented. Yet it said that...
