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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the U.S. government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial authority.
Yaser Esam Hamdi (born September 26, 1980) is a former American citizen who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001. The United States government claims that he was fighting with the Taliban against U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance forces.
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. 557 (2006), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated both the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and the Geneva Conventions ratified by the U.S. [1]
In 2004, after three years of detention without trial (at first at Camp X-Ray, until his identity was discovered), the U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, which affirmed the right of U.S. citizens to habeas corpus and trial; he was released from United States custody without charges and was ...
The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz [4] after U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld [5] and Rasul v. Bush [6] and were coordinated through the Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants.
Rumsfeld expressed no regrets about the Iraq War, a disastrous conflict that claimed roughly 300,000 lives and undermined US credibility. Donald Rumsfeld's legacy is defined by the disastrous Iraq ...
Donald Rumsfield, former Secretary of Defense from 1975 to 1977, and again from 2001 to 2006 amid the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, died Wednesday, according to a statement from his ...
Karin Cooper/GettyThe only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison. Yet that was foreordained, considering how throughout his life inside the ...