The seldom-used national security measure allows tribunals to be held in secrecy and indefinite jailing without charge of foreigners suspected of terror ties.
Some experts questioned the symbolism of President Bush's order to allow the tribunals, saying that the advantages such courts give the government -- like fewer barriers to admission of evidence against a defendant -- could raise questions about the nation's commitment to its basic values.
It is equally wrong to allow extralegal tribunals for corporations to do end-runs around national regulation.
It was not enough, she said, that the new law would allow the tribunal to reopen its office here and resume its investigations in Yugoslavia.
However, prodded by westerners, including Thomas Hammarberg, a United Nations official, Cambodia has asked the UN for help in drafting a law that would allow a tribunal to be set up with foreign judges and lawyers working alongside their Cambodian counterparts.
The evidence has not satisfied the Tribunal that Sauckel was sufficiently connected with the common plan to wage aggressive war or sufficiently involved in the planning or waging of the aggressive wars to allow the Tribunal to convict him on Counts One and Two.
There is no faith at all that Khaleda Zia, the leader of the opposition and, it is often asserted, an ally of the Jamaat-e-Islami, would allow the Tribunal's work to continue for a day, or let its sentences stand.
In order to allow the tribunal to consider the validity of the department's claims without disclosing the contents of the documents to Guardian Australia, the hearing moved into a closed session on Tuesday, where Farrell and his legal council were excluded.
Under Brazilian law, the lower house of Congress must now vote on whether to allow the tribunal to try the conservative leader, who replaced impeached leftist President Dilma Rousseff just last year.
B5 Prosecuting Terrorism TRIBUNALS DEFENDED -- Top administration officials defended a presidential order allowing military tribunals to try foreigners charged with terrorism, and the Pentagon prepared for the potential transfer of immigrants detained by the Justice Department into military custody.
