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Parent topics
- Extrajudicial detention [r]: The policy and practice of holding prisoners captive without judicial authority to do so, or without a recognized authority under international law, such capture of prisoners of war [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S. [r]: Situations where the Executive Branch of the United States government has detained individuals without the authority of the judicial branch of government; there have been many cases going back to through the early history of the nation, sometimes during overt war, and, perhaps better known at present, directed against non-national threats. [e]
Subtopics
- Detainee Treatment Act [r]: A 2005 Congressional act specifying explicit standards for prisoners in the custody of the U.S. military [e]
- El-Masri v. Tenet [r]: A case involving extrajudicial detention, in which the U.S. government stopped a lawsuit by a person captured due to an error in identification, by invoking the state secrets privilege; the dismissal was upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and has been as a strong precedent for a wide interpretation of the privilege [e]
- Carol Rosenberg [r]: American journalist with McClatchy News Service, who has specialized in issues of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
- Guantanamo captives' documents [r]: Descriptions of documents published about the individual Guantanamo captives. [e]
- Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Johnson v. Eisentrager [r]: A 1950 U.S. Supreme Court decision that nonresident enemy aliens, captured in the context of a declared war outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. civil court, were purely under the jurisdiction of military law and had no access to the U.S. judicial system [e]
- Jose Padilla [r]: An American citizen, convicted in 2007 of conspiring to assist in terrorism in foreign countries, who was originally arrested in 2002 by U.S. law enforcement, transferred by Presidential order to military custody and interrogation, and, as a result of Padilla v. Rumsfeld, sent back to civilian jurisdiction [e]
- Khaled el-Masri [r]: A naturalized German citizen, who had been in U.S. extrajudicial detention, released, and sued the U.S. but had his case, el-Masri v. Tenet, rejected based on the state secrets privilege [e]
- Military Commissions Act of 2006 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Convening authority [r]: The individual responsible for setting in motion Courts martial in the US military justice system. [e]
- John D. Altenburg [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Susan Crawford [r]: Retired (2010) convening authority under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that tries non-national terrorism suspects; a retired Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services [e]
- Bruce MacDonald [r]: A retired officer in the United States Navy, appointed the third Convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions. [e]
- Convening authority [r]: The individual responsible for setting in motion Courts martial in the US military justice system. [e]
- Ex parte Quirin [r]: A 1942 Supreme Court of the United States ruling that affirmed the right to try captured enemy personnel, who operated in civilian clothing, by a Presidentially appointed secret military tribunal [e]
- Alberto Gonzales [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alien Torts Claims Act [r]: Originally introduced in 1789, a U.S. law that has become active in using the U.S. court to seek redress for actions committed outside the U.S., but in violation of U.S. or international law and where the defendants have a relationship to the U.S. [e]
- American Civil Liberties Union [r]: American political action group founded in 1920 for protection of civil liberties. [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policy, legal interpretation and examples, under the George W. Bush Administration, of extraordinary rendition, U.S., primarily related to the Administration's war on terror [e]
- Freedom of Information Act [r]: A piece of legislation that enables individuals and groups to demand that the government review designated information that is being withheld from public release. [e]
- George Tenet [r]: Director of Central Intelligence from July 1997 to July 2004, heading the United States intelligence community and the Central Intelligence Agency [e]