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A "compromise" that makes things worse.(INSIDER REPORT)(military tribunals for terrorists)(Brief article)
The Bush administration-backed bill to create special military tribunals for terrorist suspects would permit the detention and "coercive interrogation"--that is, torture--of noncombatants, including U.S. citizens, who allegedly "supported hostilities" against the United States. This is a much broader definition than a previous version, in which those liable to such treatment must be accused of engaging in hostilities against the U.S. government.
"We're making sure that an enemy combatant can be defined as something other than a front-line troop," explains Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of three Senate Republican "dissidents"--the others being John Warner of Virginia and Arizona's John McCain--who had initially opposed the administration's bill. As paraphrased in a Reuters account, Senator Graham's understanding is that "enemy combatants would now include those who provided money, weapons, and other support for terrorist groups as well as those involved in actual operations." The ...
- Congress scurries to create legislation for military tribunals.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) June 30, 2006 700+ words
...the creation of military tribunals, following a Supreme...preferred the use of military tribunals to consider the...he said. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said...constitutionality of military tribunals and protected any...
- Senate passes bill allowing military tribunals to try terror suspects.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) September 28, 2006 700+ words
...Thursday when the Senate approved a compromise bill to set up military tribunals to try detainees. The 65-34 vote, following House approval...compromising with three key GOP senators, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to ensure that Geneva Convention protections...
- Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on...
- Magazine article from: Presidential Studies Quarterly Wheeler, Darren A. December 1, 2006 700+ words
Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American...latest salvo, Louis Fisher's Military Tribunals and Presidential Power also should...comprehensive account of the evolution of military tribunals in the American political system...
- Military tribunals and the war against terrorism: an interview with Frank...
- Magazine article from: Social Education Johnson, Seva March 1, 2002 700+ words
...much in the news lately about military tribunals. President George W. Bush has authorized military tribunals to try non-U.S. citizens...provides authority to convene other military tribunals "with respect to offenders or...
- Tribunals on trial: President Bush authorizes military tribunals for suspected...
- Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication January 11, 2002 700+ words
...would serve as both jury and judge. Military tribunals differ from civilian courts in other...in civilian trials, defendants in military tribunals would have the right to a lawyer...defense. But unlike civilian trials, military tribunals are generally held in secret and...
- TERRORISTS' CRIMES SUIT MILITARY COURTS MILITARY TRIBUNALS ARE AN ACCEPTED PART...
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) December 6, 2001 700+ words
...suspected of terrorism will be tried by military tribunals instead of civilian courts has enraged...There are precedents for using military tribunals in times of war that stretch back...Laden's henchmen illustrate why military tribunals are a better forum for dispensing...
- President Bush's military order establishing military tribunals to try...
- Magazine article from: Florida Bar Journal Pedata, Martin A. November 1, 2002 700+ words
...order authorizing the creation of military tribunals to try individual noncitizens of...of the Armed Forces to establish military tribunals to try and punish those individuals...resolution, the power to create military tribunals. (8) In fact, the Supreme Court...
- Terrorists on trial.(Editorials)(Bush should abandon plan for military...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) January 4, 2002 700+ words
...try terrorist leaders in U.S. military tribunals abroad, critics charged that such...Such characteristics would make the military tribunals similar in many ways to the courts...improvements, several aspects of the military tribunals remain troubling. For example...
