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Enemy combatants.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)
I can empathize with William Norman Grigg's concerns in "Casting Aside Justice" (August 8 issue) about presidents giving themselves unlimited power to designate an "enemy combatant" as such and deny these individuals constitutional safeguards. Actually, the socialization of America bothers me more, but the two go hand-in-hand.
The divisiveness in our government forces the taking of absolute power. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the president to get anything done in today's political atmosphere. As has been proven, Congress would stalemate the administration. The Vietnam War ...
- Wartime detention of enemy combatants: what if there were a war and no one...
- Magazine article from: Denver Journal of International Law and Policy Hemingway, Thomas L. March 22, 2006 700+ words
...authorized military commissions to try enemy combatants for violations of the law of war...affecting the detention of certain enemy combatants. The AUMF authorized the President to detain enemy combatants engaged in hostilities against...
- Presidential authority to detain "enemy combatants".
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Elsea, Jennifer K. September 1, 2003 700+ words
...view that the authority to detain "enemy combatants" belongs to the president alone...has authorized the detention of "enemy combatants." The definition of "enemy combatant...them access to counsel, saying that enemy combatants have no right to counsel, and that...
- Enemy combatants and the courts.(Looking at the Law)
- Magazine article from: Social Education Parrini, Michelle Williams, Charles F. March 1, 2005 700+ words
...released? What rights must be accorded enemy combatants who shun uniforms and fight on behalf of...do we ensure that persons being held as enemy combatants are in fact enemy combatants and not innocent bystanders? In three...
- Detaining 'enemy combatants'.(EDITORIALS)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times April 28, 2004 700+ words
...two U.S. citizens detained as "enemy combatants." Their cases are the most current...president's authority to detain enemy combatants indefinitely without access to a lawyer...non-U.S. citizens being held as enemy combatants in Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Padilla and...
- Detainee cases hit court; The high court takes up cases contesting the...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor January 23, 2004 700+ words
...detention of those he has designated "enemy combatants." In addition to two cases already...the designation and treatment of "enemy combatants." The government's arguments As...and necessary. "The detention of enemy combatants serves the vital wartime objectives...
- How the system works; Fact and fiction on enemy combatants.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times September 8, 2005 700+ words
...customs of war, which permit captured enemy combatants to be held as long as hostilities...later U.S. Supreme Court cases. Enemy combatants are not entitled to a trial unless...have been properly classified as a enemy combatants. In addition, Administrative Review...
- Panel reviews labeling of Gitmo inmates; 4 deemed 'enemy combatants'.(NATION)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times August 14, 2004 700+ words
...the suspects are properly labeled "enemy combatants," the Pentagon said yesterday...have been improperly classified as "enemy combatants" may be released to their home countries...consistently referred to them as "enemy combatants." Still, the Pentagon created the...
- The detention of unlawful enemy combatants during the war on terror.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2009 700+ words
...The detention of unlawful enemy combatants during the war on terror...history of US treatment of enemy combatants in order to draw out lessons...contentious issue of how to treat enemy combatants in the so-called "War...
Source: HighBeam Research, Enemy combatants.(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)(Letter to the Editor)