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had released a 281-page set of procedures for conducting military commissions in accordance with the Military Commissions Act of 2009 on May 4, 2010. This was one day before the first new hearing in the case of the Canadian citizen
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during a 2002 firefight in Afghanistan, insiders say. Omission of the segment could have also obliged prosecutors to trim or abandon "up to one-third" of its cases, according to one inside estimate.
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She wrote that Paul was the first Presiding Officer to address the implications of the new act. Paul ruled that the Prosecution could not use the new act to place additional charges against
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The officials sought to strip a new commissions manual of a law-of-war murder definition that is central to Khadr's prosecution in the mortal wounding of Special Forces Sgt. First Class
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with murder. Edwards wrote that the change would have triggered dropping charges against a third of the Guantanamo captives whom the Prosecution planned to charge with murder.
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had the right to access US federal courts to challenge their detentions.
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Enemy Belligerent Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010
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had recently learned that there was internal controversy within the
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BOUMEDIENE et al. v. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, et al.
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BOUMEDIENE et al. v. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, et al.
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United States federal defense and national security legislation
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was unconstitutional in suspending the right of detainees to
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Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World
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National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
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Index

Military Commissions Act
Military Commissions Act of 2006
United States Supreme Court
Boumediene v. Bush
Military Commissions Act of 2006
habeas corpus
detainees
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010
Pub. L.
111–84 (text)
(PDF)
H.R. 2647
Stat.
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Carol Rosenberg
Miami Herald
Lieutenant Colonel
Nancy Paul
Presiding Officer
Sudanese captive
Ibrahim al Qosi
Department of Defense
Omar Khadr
Steven Edwards
Vancouver Sun
Canwest News Service
Obama administration
Guantanamo military commissions
Omar Khadr
Detainee Treatment Act

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