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The much-debated Military Commissions Act of 2006 [9] is now the law of the land.
President Bush [10] signed the bill yesterday which effectively strips detainees labeled as suspected terrorists by the president of rights traditionally guaranteed in American courts. Under the bill, suspects will have only a limited ability to view evidence used against them, and also be denied habeas corpus protection. In addition, the legislation leaves to the president’s discretion any enforcement of “non-grave breaches” of the Geneva Conventions [11].
To read more about the bill and the process by which it became law, be sure to check out Congresspedia [12]’s great page on War on Terror detainee legislation [9].
Links:
[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/2307/conor-kenny
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace/terrorism
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government/us-congress
[4] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/democracy
[5] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/social-justice
[6] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
[7] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/war-peace
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[9] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/War_on_Terror_detainee_legislation
[10] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_Walker_Bush
[11] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Geneva_Conventions
[12] http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Congresspedia