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Geneva 2.0.(Geneva conventions)
IN JANUARY 2002, then-White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales wrote a memorandum to President Bush in which he argued that "the current paradigm renders quaint" many of the provisions of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. This remark set the stage for a series of efforts by the Bush administration to claim that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to the global war on terror, that they applied to some detainees but not others or, at a minimum, that the president is entitled to interpret the treaty's "grave breaches" clauses as he pleases.
These and subsequent actions have set off what some have called a crisis in the laws of war, ironically pitting the U.S. ...
- Rewriting rules of war.(Editorials)(Bush seeks exemption from Geneva...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) August 14, 2006 700+ words
...Guard The Bush administration doesn't get it about the Geneva Conventions, and its...3 of the Geneva Conventions, the Bush administration continues...official Bush administration policy that the Geneva Conventions didn't...
- US vows to apply Geneva Conventions to all terror suspects.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 13, 2006 700+ words
...to apply Geneva Conventions to all terror...policy, the Bush administration has announced...relevant Geneva Conventions to all terror...law and the Geneva Conventions. But even...policy the Bush administration is trying...
- Clash of visions over CIA interrogations; Can the broad terms of the Geneva...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor September 21, 2006 700+ words
...dictates of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Common Article 3 establishes a...anyone captured in a conflict. The Bush administration had decided that Common Article...In its proposal to Congress, the Bush administration is seeking a clear statement from...
- EDITORIAL: The right way: Applying Geneva Conventions to terrorism detainees...
- Newspaper article from: Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH) July 16, 2006 700+ words
...16--The Bush administration's decision...with the Geneva Conventions is smart...abide by the Geneva Conventions as evidence...that the Bush administration had no authority...decision on the Geneva Conventions. In the...
- NEWSWEEK: Detention, Interrogation That Opened Door to Methods Used at Abu...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire May 16, 2004 700+ words
...decided that the Geneva Conventions did not apply...lawyers within the Bush administration staked out a forward...treaties and even the Geneva Conventions did not apply...Newsweek. The Bush administration's emerging approach...
- EDITORIAL: We must not weaken Geneva Conventions.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ) September 18, 2006 700+ words
...provisions of the Geneva Conventions. A group of Senate...Democrats against the Bush administration's plan on how...could breach the Geneva Conventions' Common Article...weakening of the Geneva Conventions' protections...
- Iraq prisoners pose new test for Geneva Conventions; Both sides have taken...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 26, 2003 700+ words
...nothing to do with the Bush administration's decision many months...waffling over whether the Geneva Conventions should apply to terror...said in Afghanistan: The Geneva Conventions are profoundly important...letter and spirit of the Geneva Conventions, which set ...
- Geneva Conventions turn 60.
- News wire article from: Aljazeera.net August 13, 2009 700+ words
...conflict. The four Geneva Conventions have become the...positions. As the Geneva Conventions turn 60, questions...attacks, when the Bush administration tore up the rule...Conventions. "The Geneva Conventions are part of the...
