Soon U.S. invasion Afghanistan 2001, Bush administration developed a plan holding interrogating prisoners
Niday, I.A. (2008). "The War against Terror as War against the Constitution." Canadian Review of American Studies, 38(1), 101-117.
There are a number of essential elements that make up the article written by Jackson A. Niday, "The War against Terror as War against the Constitution." The principle point of this article is to explore the question of whether or not the civil rights of Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was a United States and Saudia Arabian citizen detained at Guantanamo Bay during 2002 after being captured in Afghanistan in the initial stages of the War on Terror, were violated. While seeking to answer this question, the author examines the 2004 Supreme Court lawsuit Hamdi v. Rumsfield in which legal counsel on behalf of...
citizen -- particularly his right to habeas corpus (a speedy and fair trial).
During the course of the article, a number of eminent points are uncovered that lend a degree of doubtfulness to the rendering of justice in a case that eventually determined that the U.S. government has the right to keep enemy soldiers detained indefinitely, but that these soldiers who are of U.S. citizens should be granted the right to prove whether or not they are truly enemy combatants. The most relevant aspect of this article is the intense dissent that overtook the nine Supreme Court judges in this affair, which partitioned the chief justices into four different opinions with only four of them agreeing on the same stance.
Even more significantly, however, the article alludes to the…
