Faster access than browser!
140 relations: Afghanistan, Al Odah v. United States, Al-Qaeda, Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Alien (law), Alien and Sedition Acts, American Civil Liberties Union, American Society of International Law, Amnesty International, Amnesty law, Anti-war movement, Arlen Specter, Attorneys in the United States, Ayn Rand Institute, Balkinization (blog), Billy Goodman, Boumediene v. Bush, Cato Institute, CBS, CBS News, Center for Constitutional Rights, Chief Defense Counsel (United States), Citizenship, Colonel, Combatant, Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Command responsibility, Competent tribunal, Congressional Budget Office, Convening authority (court-martial), Court-martial, Criminal Investigation Task Force, David Hicks, David Wu, Defense (legal), Democratic Party (United States), Detainee Treatment Act, Detention (imprisonment), Donald Rumsfeld, Due process, Duncan Hunter, Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, Enemy combatant, Enhanced interrogation techniques, Ex post facto law, Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, FindLaw, Geneva Conventions, George W. Bush, George Washington University, ..., Georgetown Law, Ghost detainee, Habeas corpus, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Harper's Magazine, Hostage, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, James Madison, James Robertson (judge), John Dean, John McCain, John Yoo, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Jonathan Turley, José Padilla (prisoner), Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army, Jurisdiction, Jurist, JURIST, Keith J. Allred, Keith Olbermann, Law, Law of war, Lawful enemy combatant, Lawyer, Lieutenant colonel, List of Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay, List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania, List of United States Senators from Vermont, Military Commissions Act of 2009, Military justice, Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees, Mitch McConnell, Murder, Mutilation, Nacht und Nebel, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, National Review, Omar Khadr, OpinionJournal.com, Oregon, Osama bin Laden, Patrick Leahy, Peter Brownback, Plea bargain, President of the United States, Prisoner of war, Ranking member, Rape, Rasul v. Bush, Republican Party (United States), Robert A. Levy, Robert Byrd, Salim Hamdan, Sensory deprivation, September 11 attacks, Sexual assault, Sleep deprivation, St. Mary's University School of Law, Sunset provision, Supreme Court of the United States, Susan J. Crawford, Taliban, Ted Kennedy, The Globe and Mail, The Jurist (journal), The New York Times, The Village Voice, The Washington Post, Third Geneva Convention, TomPaine.com, Torture, Uniform Code of Military Justice, United States Code, United States Constitution, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, United States Department of Defense, United States Department of Justice, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States House Committee on Armed Services, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of California, Berkeley, Unlawful combatant, War Crimes Act of 1996, War on Terror, Washington, D.C.. Expand index (90 more) »
Afghanistan
Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Afghanistan · See more »
Al Odah v. United States
Al Odah v. United States is a court case filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsels challenging the legality of the continued detention as enemy combatants of Guantanamo detainees.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Al Odah v. United States · See more »
Al-Qaeda
Al-Qaeda (القاعدة,, translation: "The Base", "The Foundation" or "The Fundament" and alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qæda and sometimes al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization founded in 1988.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Al-Qaeda · See more »
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (Arabic: علي صالح كحلة المري) (b. 1966/1967) is a citizen of Qatar who was sentenced to serve a 15-year sentence in a United States federal prison, with credit for the nearly eight years he was held in detention without charges.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri · See more »
Alien (law)
In law, an alien is a person who is not a national of a given country, though definitions and terminology differ to some degree.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Alien (law) · See more »
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed by the Federalist-dominated 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Alien and Sedition Acts · See more »
American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." Officially nonpartisan, the organization has been supported and criticized by liberal and conservative organizations alike.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and American Civil Liberties Union · See more »
American Society of International Law
The American Society of International Law (ASIL), founded in 1906, was chartered by the United States Congress in 1950 to foster the study of international law, and to promote the establishment and maintenance of international relations on the basis of law and justice.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and American Society of International Law · See more »
Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Amnesty International · See more »
Amnesty law
An amnesty law is any law that retroactively exempts a select group of people, usually military leaders and government leaders, from criminal liability for crimes committed.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Amnesty law · See more »
Anti-war movement
An anti-war movement (also antiwar) is a social movement, usually in opposition to a particular nation's decision to start or carry on an armed conflict, unconditional of a maybe-existing just cause.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Anti-war movement · See more »
Arlen Specter
Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Arlen Specter · See more »
Attorneys in the United States
An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court on the retainer of clients.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Attorneys in the United States · See more »
Ayn Rand Institute
The Ayn Rand Institute: The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism, commonly known as the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit think tank in Irvine, California that promotes Objectivism, the philosophy developed by Ayn Rand.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ayn Rand Institute · See more »
Balkinization (blog)
Balkinization is a law blog focused on constitutional, First Amendment, and other civil liberties issues.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Balkinization (blog) · See more »
Billy Goodman
William Dale Goodman (March 22, 1926 – October 1, 1984) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) infielder who played sixteen seasons for the Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, and Houston Colt.45s, from 1947 through 1962.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Billy Goodman · See more »
Boumediene v. Bush
Boumediene v. Bush,, was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Boumediene v. Bush · See more »
Cato Institute
The Cato Institute is an American libertarian think tank headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded as the Charles Koch Foundation in 1974 by Ed Crane, Murray Rothbard, and Charles Koch, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the conglomerate Koch Industries.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Cato Institute · See more »
CBS
CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and CBS · See more »
CBS News
CBS News is the news division of American television and radio service CBS.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and CBS News · See more »
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Constitutional Rights.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Center for Constitutional Rights · See more »
Chief Defense Counsel (United States)
The Chief Defense Counsel is a United States Department of Defense military position created by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to supervise military and civilian defense attorneys for Guantanamo Bay detention camp prisoners in the Guantanamo military commission.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Chief Defense Counsel (United States) · See more »
Citizenship
Citizenship is the status of a person recognized under the custom or law as being a legal member of a sovereign state or belonging to a nation.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Citizenship · See more »
Colonel
Colonel ("kernel", abbreviated Col., Col or COL) is a senior military officer rank below the brigadier and general officer ranks.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Colonel · See more »
Combatant
Combatant is a term of art which describes the legal status of an individual who has the right to engage in hostilities during an international armed conflict.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Combatant · See more »
Combatant Status Review Tribunal
The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants".
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Combatant Status Review Tribunal · See more »
Command responsibility
Command responsibility, sometimes referred to as the Yamashita standard or the Medina standard, and also known as superior responsibility, is the legal doctrine of hierarchical accountability for war crimes.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Command responsibility · See more »
Competent tribunal
Competent Tribunal is a term used in Article 5 paragraph 2 of the Third Geneva Convention, which states.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Competent tribunal · See more »
Congressional Budget Office
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Congressional Budget Office · See more »
Convening authority (court-martial)
The term convening authority is used in United States military law to refer to an individual with certain legal powers granted under either the Uniform Code of Military Justice (i.e. the regular military justice system) or the Military Commissions Act of 2009 (for the Guantanamo military commissions).
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Convening authority (court-martial) · See more »
Court-martial
A court-martial or court martial (plural courts-martial or courts martial, as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Court-martial · See more »
Criminal Investigation Task Force
The Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) is an organization created in early 2002 by the United States Department of Defense to conduct investigations of detainees captured in the War on Terrorism.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Criminal Investigation Task Force · See more »
David Hicks
David Matthew Hicks (born 7 August 1975) is an Australian who was detained by the United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp from 2001 until 2007.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and David Hicks · See more »
David Wu
David Wu (born April 8, 1955) is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1999 to 2011.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and David Wu · See more »
Defense (legal)
In civil proceedings and criminal prosecutions under the common law, a defendant may raise a defense (or defence) in an attempt to avoid criminal or civil liability.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Defense (legal) · See more »
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Democratic Party (United States) · See more »
Detainee Treatment Act
The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that was passed on 30 December 2005.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Detainee Treatment Act · See more »
Detention (imprisonment)
Detention is the process whereby a state or private citizen lawfully holds a person by removing his or her freedom or liberty at that time.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Detention (imprisonment) · See more »
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9, 1932) is a retired American political figure and businessman.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Donald Rumsfeld · See more »
Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Due process · See more »
Duncan Hunter
Duncan Lee Hunter (born May 31, 1948) is an American politician.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Duncan Hunter · See more »
Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010
The Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 (S. 3081) is a bill introduced by United States Senator John McCain, sponsored by Joe Lieberman and eight other Republican Senators.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010 · See more »
Enemy combatant
An enemy combatant is a person who, either lawfully or unlawfully, directly engages in hostilities for an enemy state or non-state actor in an armed conflict.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Enemy combatant · See more »
Enhanced interrogation techniques
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" or "enhanced interrogation" is a euphemism for the U.S. government's program of systematic torture of detainees by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and various components of the U.S. Armed Forces at black sites around the world, including Bagram, Guantanamo Bay, and Abu Ghraib, authorized by officials of the George W. Bush administration.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Enhanced interrogation techniques · See more »
Ex post facto law
An ex post facto law (corrupted from) is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ex post facto law · See more »
Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States, in the context of the early twenty-first century War on Terrorism, refers to foreign nationals the United States detains outside of the legal process required within United States legal jurisdiction.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States · See more »
FindLaw
FindLaw is a business of Thomson Reuters that provides online legal information and online marketing services for law firms.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and FindLaw · See more »
Geneva Conventions
Original document as PDF in single pages, 1864 The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for humanitarian treatment in war.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Geneva Conventions · See more »
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and George W. Bush · See more »
George Washington University
No description.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and George Washington University · See more »
Georgetown Law
Georgetown University Law Center, commonly referred to as Georgetown Law School or simply Georgetown Law, is one of the professional graduate schools of Georgetown University, a private research university located in Washington, D.C. Established in 1870, it is the second largest law school in the United States and receives more full-time applications than any other law school in the country.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Georgetown Law · See more »
Ghost detainee
Ghost detainee is a term used in the executive branch of the United States government to designate a person held in a detention center, whose identity has been hidden by keeping them unregistered and therefore anonymous.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ghost detainee · See more »
Habeas corpus
Habeas corpus (Medieval Latin meaning literally "that you have the body") is a recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Habeas corpus · See more »
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,, is a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay lack "the power to proceed because its structures and procedures violate both the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the four Geneva Conventions signed in 1949." Specifically, the ruling says that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions was violated.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Hamdan v. Rumsfeld · See more »
Harper's Magazine
Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Harper's Magazine · See more »
Hostage
A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Hostage · See more »
Human Rights First
Human Rights First (formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Human Rights First · See more »
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Human Rights Watch · See more »
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly with resolution 2200A (XXI) on 16 December 1966, and in force from 23 March 1976 in accordance with Article 49 of the covenant.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights · See more »
James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman and Founding Father who served as the fourth President of the United States from 1809 to 1817.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and James Madison · See more »
James Robertson (judge)
James Robertson (born 1938) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia until his retirement in June 2010.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and James Robertson (judge) · See more »
John Dean
John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an investment banker, author, columnist, lecturer, and attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and John Dean · See more »
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona, a seat he was first elected to in 1986.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and John McCain · See more »
John Yoo
John Choon Yoo (born July 10, 1967) is a Korean-American attorney, law professor, and author.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and John Yoo · See more »
Johnson v. Eisentrager
Johnson v. Eisentrager,, was a major decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, where it decided that U.S. courts had no jurisdiction over German war criminals held in a U.S.-administered prison in Germany.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Johnson v. Eisentrager · See more »
Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley (born May 6, 1961) is an American lawyer, legal scholar, writer, commentator, and legal analyst in broadcast and print journalism.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Jonathan Turley · See more »
José Padilla (prisoner)
José Padilla (born October 18, 1970), also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen from Brooklyn, New York, who was convicted in federal court of aiding terrorists.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and José Padilla (prisoner) · See more »
Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army
The Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army is the legal arm of the United States Army.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army · See more »
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from the Latin ius, iuris meaning "law" and dicere meaning "to speak") is the practical authority granted to a legal body to administer justice within a defined field of responsibility, e.g., Michigan tax law.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Jurisdiction · See more »
Jurist
A jurist (from medieval Latin) is someone who researches and studies jurisprudence (theory of law).
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Jurist · See more »
JURIST
JURIST is an online legal news service hosted by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, powered by a staff of more than 60 law students working in Pittsburgh and other US locations under the direction of founding Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Professor Bernard Hibbitts, Acting Executive Director Andrew Morgan, Research Director Jaclyn Belczyk, Technical Director Jeremiah Lee, Managing Editor Dave Rodkey and Chief of Staff Ram Eachambadi.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and JURIST · See more »
Keith J. Allred
Keith J. Allred is an American lawyer and retired Naval officer.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Keith J. Allred · See more »
Keith Olbermann
Keith Theodore Olbermann (born January 27, 1959) is an American sports and political commentator and writer.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Keith Olbermann · See more »
Law
Law is a system of rules that are created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Law · See more »
Law of war
The law of war is a legal term of art which refers to the aspect of public international law concerning acceptable justifications to engage in war (jus ad bellum) and the limits to acceptable wartime conduct (jus in bello or international humanitarian law).
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Law of war · See more »
Lawful enemy combatant
The term lawful enemy combatant is defined in the Military Commissions Act of 2006; the term is used as an exclusionary term to prevent most of those who qualify under the definition from being an unlawful enemy combatant.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Lawful enemy combatant · See more »
Lawyer
A lawyer or attorney is a person who practices law, as an advocate, attorney, attorney at law, barrister, barrister-at-law, bar-at-law, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor at law, or solicitor, but not as a paralegal or charter executive secretary.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Lawyer · See more »
Lieutenant colonel
Lieutenant colonel is a rank of commissioned officer in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Lieutenant colonel · See more »
List of Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay
A total of 133 Saudi citizens have been held in the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps at its naval base in Cuba since January 2002.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and List of Saudi detainees at Guantanamo Bay · See more »
List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania
This is a chronological listing of the United States Senators from Pennsylvania.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and List of United States Senators from Pennsylvania · See more »
List of United States Senators from Vermont
Vermont was admitted to the Union on March 4, 1791.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and List of United States Senators from Vermont · See more »
Military Commissions Act of 2009
The Military Commissions Act of 2009, which amended the Military Commissions Act of 2006, was passed to address concerns by the United States Supreme Court.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Military Commissions Act of 2009 · See more »
Military justice
Military justice (or military law) is the body of laws and procedures governing members of the armed forces.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Military justice · See more »
Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees
Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees is the full title of a United States Army regulation usually referred to as AR 190-8, that lays out how the United States Army should treat captives.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Military Police: Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees · See more »
Mitch McConnell
Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician who has served as the senior United States Senator from Kentucky since 1985.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Mitch McConnell · See more »
Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Murder · See more »
Mutilation
Mutilation or maiming (from the Latin: mutilus) is cutting off or injury to a body part of a person so that the part of the body is permanently damaged, detached or disfigured.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Mutilation · See more »
Nacht und Nebel
Nacht und Nebel was a directive issued by Adolf Hitler on 7 December 1941 targeting political activists and resistance "helpers" in World War II to be imprisoned or killed, while the family and the population remained uncertain as to the fate or whereabouts of the Nazi state's alleged offender.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Nacht und Nebel · See more »
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 is a United States federal law which besides other provisions specifies the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 · See more »
National Review
National Review (NR) is an American semi-monthly conservative editorial magazine focusing on news and commentary pieces on political, social, and cultural affairs.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and National Review · See more »
Omar Khadr
Omar Ahmed Sayid Khadr (born September 19, 1986) is a Canadian who was detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for ten years, from the age of 16, during which he pleaded guilty to the murder of U.S. Army Sergeant 1st Class Christopher Speer and other charges.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Omar Khadr · See more »
OpinionJournal.com
OpinionJournal.com is a website featuring content from the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and OpinionJournal.com · See more »
Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Oregon · See more »
Osama bin Laden
Usama ibn Mohammed ibn Awad ibn Ladin (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن), often anglicized as Osama bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), was a founder of, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States and many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Osama bin Laden · See more »
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Vermont, a seat he was first elected to in 1974.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Patrick Leahy · See more »
Peter Brownback
Peter E. Brownback III is a retired military officer and lawyer.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Peter Brownback · See more »
Plea bargain
The plea bargain (also plea agreement, plea deal, copping a plea, or plea in mitigation) is any agreement in a criminal case between the prosecutor and defendant whereby the defendant agrees to plead guilty to a particular charge in return for some concession from the prosecutor.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Plea bargain · See more »
President of the United States
The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and President of the United States · See more »
Prisoner of war
A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Prisoner of war · See more »
Ranking member
In United States politics, a ranking member is the most senior member of a congressional or state legislative committee from the minority party.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ranking member · See more »
Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Rape · See more »
Rasul v. Bush
Rasul v. Bush,, was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that foreign nationals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp could petition federal courts for writs of habeas corpus to review the legality of their detention.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Rasul v. Bush · See more »
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Republican Party (United States) · See more »
Robert A. Levy
Robert A. Levy (born 1941) is the chairman of the libertarian Cato Institute and the organizer and financier behind District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court Case that established the Second Amendment as affirming an individual right to gun ownership.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Robert A. Levy · See more »
Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Robert Byrd · See more »
Salim Hamdan
Salim Ahmed Hamdan (born February 25, 1968) is a Yemeni man, captured during the invasion of Afghanistan, declared by the United States government to be an illegal enemy combatant and held as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to November 2008.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Salim Hamdan · See more »
Sensory deprivation
Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Sensory deprivation · See more »
September 11 attacks
The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and September 11 attacks · See more »
Sexual assault
Sexual assault is an act in which a person coerces or physically forces a person to engage in a sexual act against their will.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Sexual assault · See more »
Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation is the condition of not having enough sleep; it can be either chronic or acute.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Sleep deprivation · See more »
St. Mary's University School of Law
St.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and St. Mary's University School of Law · See more »
Sunset provision
In public policy, a sunset provision or clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides that the law shall cease to have effect after a specific date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend the law.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Sunset provision · See more »
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Supreme Court of the United States · See more »
Susan J. Crawford
Susan J. Crawford (born April 27, 1947) is a US lawyer, who was appointed the Convening Authority for the Guantanamo military commissions, on February 7, 2007.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Susan J. Crawford · See more »
Taliban
The Taliban (طالبان "students"), alternatively spelled Taleban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement in Afghanistan currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within that country.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Taliban · See more »
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an American politician who served in the United States Senate from Massachusetts for almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Ted Kennedy · See more »
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and The Globe and Mail · See more »
The Jurist (journal)
The Jurist: Studies in Church Law and Ministry is the only journal published in the United States devoted to the study and promotion of Catholic canon law or church law.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and The Jurist (journal) · See more »
The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and The New York Times · See more »
The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and The Village Voice · See more »
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and The Washington Post · See more »
Third Geneva Convention
The Third Geneva Convention, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war, is one of the four treaties of the Geneva Conventions.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Third Geneva Convention · See more »
TomPaine.com
TomPaine.com was a website with news and opinion on United States politics from a progressive perspective, named after the political writer Thomas Paine.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and TomPaine.com · See more »
Torture
Torture (from the Latin tortus, "twisted") is the act of deliberately inflicting physical or psychological pain in order to fulfill some desire of the torturer or compel some action from the victim.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Torture · See more »
Uniform Code of Military Justice
The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is the foundation of military law in the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Uniform Code of Military Justice · See more »
United States Code
The Code of Laws of the United States of America (variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States, United States Code, U.S. Code, U.S.C., or USC) is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Code · See more »
United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Constitution · See more »
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) known informally as the D.C. Circuit, is the federal appellate court for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit · See more »
United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · See more »
United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government of the United States charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the United States Armed Forces.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Department of Defense · See more »
United States Department of Justice
The United States Department of Justice (DOJ), also known as the Justice Department, is a federal executive department of the U.S. government, responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice in the United States, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries. The department was formed in 1870 during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. The Department of Justice administers several federal law enforcement agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). The department is responsible for investigating instances of financial fraud, representing the United States government in legal matters (such as in cases before the Supreme Court), and running the federal prison system. The department is also responsible for reviewing the conduct of local law enforcement as directed by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. The department is headed by the United States Attorney General, who is nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and is a member of the Cabinet. The current Attorney General is Jeff Sessions.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Department of Justice · See more »
United States District Court for the District of Columbia
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States District Court for the District of Columbia · See more »
United States House Committee on Armed Services
The U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, commonly known as the House Armed Services Committee, is a standing committee of the United States House of Representatives.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States House Committee on Armed Services · See more »
United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States House of Representatives · See more »
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and United States Senate · See more »
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and University of California, Berkeley · See more »
Unlawful combatant
An unlawful combatant, illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant/belligerent is a person who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Unlawful combatant · See more »
War Crimes Act of 1996
The War Crimes Act of 1996 is a law that defines a war crime to include a "grave breach of the Geneva Conventions", specifically noting that "grave breach" should have the meaning defined in any convention (related to the laws of war) to which the United States is a party.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and War Crimes Act of 1996 · See more »
War on Terror
The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and War on Terror · See more »
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
New!!: Military Commissions Act of 2006 and Washington, D.C. · See more »
Redirects here:
Detainee bill, Hr6166, Military Commission Act of 2006, Military commissions act of 2006, S.3930, Tribunal bill, U.S. Military Commissions Act of 2006, US Senate and House of Representatives approves Guantanamo military commissions, United States Military Commissions Act of 2006.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006
