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Publication Date: September 2006
Publisher: Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): James Jay Carafano
Research Area: Law and ethics
Keywords: Homeland defense; Guantanamo Bay; military commissions
Type: Brief
Abstract:
Establishing military commissions to try terrorists should not be a battleground for debating the president's ability to interpret the Geneva Conventions.