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...part of the dispute arose several weeks ago when President Bush called on Congress to interpret the Geneva Conventions, offering legal guidance on what would and would not be permissible during CIA interrogations of terrorist suspects. The senators opposed the idea, arguing that to in effect amend the Geneva Conventions would be a mistake, in part because other nations might try to do the same as a possible justification for mistreating American prisoners in their custody...
...issues, the light that the Constitution sheds on such questions, and the light that such questions shed on the Constitution.” Such a talk has particular relevancy as the U.S. Senate debates legislation about the White House’s power to reinterpret a provision of the Geneva Convention regarding the trial of terrorists contained at Guantanamo. Last year on Constitution Day, Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 gave a talk on the future of the U.S. Supreme Court under Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. ’76. But the new holiday seems...
BUSH'S BILL seeks to set the rules for future treatment of detainees in the war on terrorism. Arguing that some of the language of the Geneva Conventions regulating the treatment of prisoners of war is too vague--like the prohibition in Common Article 3 against "outrages upon personal dignity"--Bush would remove Geneva references from the U.S.'s 1996 War Crimes Act, which provides penalties up to death for abuse of detainees. Instead, he would identify nine violations: torture, cruel or inhuman treatment, performing biological experiments, murder, mutilation or maiming, intentionally causing great suffering or serious injury, rape, sexual...
JOHN MCCAIN'S BILL would protect interrogators from civil suits, would punish them only for grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and would increase rights of appeal to the U.S. courts. It would preserve references to the Geneva Conventions in the War Crimes Act. The Arizona Senator and his co-sponsors, John Warner and Lindsey Graham, argue that if the U.S. interprets Geneva to its liking, other countries will too, endangering American troops if they are captured...
...other wanted men and hinted at details for future plots. It may have saved American lives. Nonetheless, controversy has arisen: given the potential value of terrorists’ information, how far can the government go to obtain it? In times of war, the standard since 1949 has been the Geneva Conventions, specifically Common Article Three, which forbids “outrages upon personal dignity” and “humiliating and degrading treatment.” The Bush administration has been unequivocal in stating that the United States is at war, yet for the last five years Bush...