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Understanding Current Assertions of Executive Power

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Deborah Pearlstein*
Affiliation:
U.S. Law and Security Program, Human Rights First

Abstract

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The Powers of the Commander in Chief in the Struggle Against Terrorism
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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References

1 S.C. Res. 1546, at 10, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1546 (June 5, 2004).

2 Memorandum from President Bush to National Security Staff, Re: The Humane Treatment of al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees (Feb. 7, 2002), available at <http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/us_law/etn/gonzales/memos_dir/dir_20020207_Bush_Det.pdf> (accessed Oct. 18, 2006).

3 President’ s Statement on Signing of H.R. 2863, the Department of Defense, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 2006, 41 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1919 (Dec. 30, 2005).

4 Transcript of Oral Argument, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, No. 05-184 (U.S. Mar. 28, 2006), at 42, available at <http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/05-184.pdf> (accessed Oct. 18, 2006).

5 Honorable Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, Plenary Address at the ASIL 2006 Centennial Conference, “A Just World Under Law” (Mar. 30, 2006).

6 Transcript of Oral Argument, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, No. 03-6696 (U.S. Apr. 28, 2004), at 43, available at <http://www.supremecourtus.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/03-6696.pdf> (accessed Oct. 19, 2006).

7 See, e.g., Dana Milbank and Dana Priest, Bush: U.S. Expected to Follow Law on Prisoners, Wash. Post, June 11, 2004, at A06, available at <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32707-2004Junl0.html> (accessed Oct. 19, 2006); Ron Hutcheson and James Kuhnhenn, Signing Statements: The Power of the Pen, Knight Ridder, The Charlotte Observer, January 7, 2006, at 13A.

8 Department of Defense, The Defense Strategy of the United States of America, at 5 (Mar. 2005), available at <http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar20O5/d2Oo5O318ndsl.pdf> (accessed Oct. 18, 2006).

9 News Transcript, Department of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Vice Director, Strategy, Plans and Police Ofice Radm William Sullivan (Mar. 18,2005), available at <http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20050318-2282.html> (accessed Oct. 18, 2006).