Sentence examples for detention authority from inspiring English sources

The detention authority stems from the 2001 authorization to use military force passed by Congress after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Jan . 22 , 2009President Obama issues Executive Order 13491, rescinding Executive Order 13440, banning the CIA's detention authority, and restricting the CIA to interrogation techniques authorized by the Army Field Manual.

It also claimed that the statute created no new detention authority that did not already exist in the original authorization to use military force.

Expanding American detention authority in Afghanistan would be counterproductive in neutralizing the Taliban's recruiting efforts.

But other than that, this new detention authority is pretty much the same as the old one.

Of the hundred and nineteen persons illegally disappeared into secret prisons, twenty-six did not even qualify under the expansive detention authority President Bush gave the C.I.A.

The CIA was unprepared as it began operating its Detention and Interrogation Program more than six months after being granted detention authorities.

But in 2012 Jeh Johnson, then the Pentagon's top lawyer and now the homeland security secretary, mused that US detention authorities might outlast the wars upon which they are predicated.

11) The CIA was unprepared as it began operating its Detention and Interrogation Program more than six months after being granted detention authorities.

He, like Graham, had been trying for years to get expanded detention authorities passed into law.

Part of the deal with detention authorities was that the kids' faces in these photographs should be blurred or not seen at all.