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Boumediene v. Bush
The Boumediene v. Bush case was a writ of habeas corpus submission made in a civilian court of the United States. Lakhdar Boumediene was a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was held in military imprisonment by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps (http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2007/02/why-boumediene-was-wrongly-decided.php).The case disputed the validity of Boumediene's custody at the Guantanamo Bay military base as well as the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act (MCA) of 2006.
Majority of the justices brought into being that the constitutionally assured right of habeas corpus review applies to persons held in Guantanamo and to persons labeled as enemy combatants on that territory. Kennedy's majority opinion begins with an over twenty page review of the history of habeas corpus in England from its roots in the due process clause of the Magna Carta of 1215 to...
Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, and Clarence Thomas. Justice Scalia disputed that the measures approved by Congress in the Detainee Treatment Act make available the fundamental protections that habeas corpus guarantees and as a result there has been no suspension of the writ, and no basis exists for judicial involvement further than what the Act consents to.
Chief Justice Roberts' dissent took a far more displeasured approach than that of Justice Scalia, focusing on whether the method gave the Guantanamo detainees in the Detainee Treatment Act an ample replacement for the Habeas protections the Constitution guaranteed. By disagreeing in the confirmatory, he implied that the concern of whether the detainees had any Suspension Clause rights was unlikely since, if they did, he found that those rights were not violated anyway.
Policy Case Study The author of this report has been asked to act as a consultant for a major security consulting firm. Contained within this report will be several topics that were requested to be covered and thus they will be with the appropriate amount of vigor and detail. The first topic will be a brief overview of the overall legal environment for non-information technology managers when it comes to
Business Continuity Plan (U.S. VISIT-DHS) Internal Key Personnel and Backups The aim of this business continuity is to guarantee continuous business operations of the US_VISIT (DHS) whenever disasters strike. Through this business continuity plan, the company has higher chances of prevailing during the disasters or financial crisis. In times of crisis or emergency within operations, the following key personnel would retain their positions within the company. This indicates that they are extensive
Business Function and Criticality Matrix Worksheet Organization: Homeland Security Business Function Business Process Criticality Operations Communications Mission-Critical Operations Security Mission-Critical Operations Critical Equipment Needs Mission-Critical Administration Critical Staffing and Assignments Mission-Critical Administration Interdepartmental Liaison Mission-Critical Communications High Level (Pentagon, CIA, FBI, President) Mission-Critical Finance Discretionary Funding Mission-Critical Marketing External Media Liaison Vital Operations Supplies needed for Critical Operations Vital Communications 2nd Tier Vital Human Resources Payroll Important Marketing External non-critical communications (Web site, etc.) Minor Finance Accounts Payable Minor Operations All other supply requests Minor Operations Regulatory Issues Minor Operations Non-Critical Equipment Minor Justifications: 1. Unlike a manufacturing or service company, many of the regular business processes can be put off a few days in the event of a critical issue. 2. Critical issues for
Security Management The role of a security manager varies widely according to the particular organization and its needs, but despite this variety, there remain certain best practices and policies that can help maintain security and stability. This is nowhere more true than in the case of organizational loss, because while loss can mean widely different things depending on the field, the underlying theoretical concepts which inform attempts to minimize loss are
DHS Introductions and Business Continuity Planning Strategy Department of Homeland Security: Continuity Plans Continuity planning is an essential component of the Department of Homeland Security. Annual Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continuity planning exercises "test the readiness and capabilities of federal departments and agencies -- coordinating with the White House -- to execute their Continuity of Operations (COOP) plans" (Continuity plans, 2009, DHS). Additional exercises may be necessary in the wake of new threats
On the other hand, the Department in itself was projected to deal with a large number of aspects surrounding homeland security. The arguments supporting the idea were focused on the principle that the citizens must be protected from foreign threats, such as terrorism, and they must be given the help needed to face the treacheries of nature. In aiming to accomplish the latter, the Federal Emergency Management Directorate was established.