President Bush has claimed broad power to conduct the war against al Qaeda and said that questions about the detention of suspected terrorists, their interrogation, trial and punishment are matters for him to decide as commander in chief.
Initially, the arrested were taken to prison for interrogation, trial, and sentencing.
In practice, this means that a Palestinian and an Israeli settler who stand accused of the same crime, committed in the exact same territory, experience fundamentally separate criminal justice systems, from arrest through interrogation, trial and punishment.
Already, Judge Kaplan has rejected two key defense requests to dismiss charges, on grounds of government misconduct and speedy-trial violations, and prosecutors have said they do not intend to use statements from Mr. Ghailani's interrogation at trial.
"I was one of them, spending three years under 'protective custody' without interrogation or trial," Mr. Sein Win recounted.
"So far the Americans agree with us that it is better to continue with interrogation and trial here," a senior Pakistani law enforcement official said today.
In the nineteen-sixties, the Supreme Court expanded the law of habeas corpus as a protection against the unfair treatment of defendants at every stage of the criminal process, from arrest and interrogation through trial and sentencing, especially in cases leading to death sentences.
Combining a neatly suspenseful account of Violette's crime and its consequences with a richly layered cultural history (told via interrogation records, trial notes, an expert psychological report and an exhaustive reading of the popular press), she skillfully analyzes Violette's transformation from wretched schoolgirl to cultural icon.
"The way this is written, you are going to take us out of the rendition business," Mr. Rizzo told Gregory B. Craig, Mr. Obama's White House counsel, referring to the much-criticized practice of grabbing a terrorist suspect abroad and delivering him to another country for interrogation or trial.
Junichi and Toru have been completely transparent, honest and consistent at all times during their investigation, arrest, interrogation and trial.
