Ben Davis : "Alberto Gonzales has said that one of the reasons the Administration departed from the Geneva Conventions in early 2002 was to provide more "flexibility" to the President. This week, some of the...
Professional Commentary
Ben Davis : "The President in his televised press conference today framed the discussion of the draft bill on Military Commissions in terms of whether Congress was going to permit "the Program" to go forward....
Ben Davis : "The rejection today by the Senate Armed Services Committee of the President's draft bill on detainees and the voting out of a draft supported by Senators Warner, McCain and Graham and Democrats,...
Ali Khan : "Five years later, the 9/11 tragedy is writ large. Unnecessary deaths litter the day, every day. Gratuitous barbarism shocks the conscience. The rhetoric of destruction intensifies. Individuals and nations committed to violence threaten...
Michael J. Kelly : "President Bush recently acknowledged the existence of the long-suspected C.I.A. detention facilities that the U.S. has used to interrogate and possibly torture high-value foreign members of al Qaeda captured abroad. This acknowledgement,...
Andrew Wood : "Cambodia's role in the Textile and Garment (T&G) industry has only recently developed into the nation's largest export industry. With Cambodia's first garment factories opened in 1994, the industry...
Abigail Salisbury : "I went to spend my summer working in Prishtina, the capital city of Kosovo, because I thought that there I would gain some valuable experience which would be relevant to...
Lisl Brunner : "The Casa Rosada, which houses the offices of the President of Argentina, has a pristinely pink façade: the yellowish brown hue of its other three sides, however, marks the...
Jordan Paust : "Recent litigation re: GTMO detainees in a Circuit Court has raised the issue whether the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) is relevant to requirements of the 1949 Geneva Conventions that...
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