Many politicians, public intellectuals, and the media commentators downplay the importance of fighting against terror. For instance, during the initial stage of war on terror, at the time when there was bipartisan consensus on most of the issues and the world's sympathy with the United States, President Bush decided to talk about issues of lesser significance such as Social Security, letting "the country re-focus off the War on Terror" (Coaty 140)
must also be aware of the fact that to build trust it must reach out to Muslim moderates. Physically, the effort to defeat terrorist groups in the short-term has been more successful than long-term efforts (Chan 2007:2)
However, when the word came through that they were to evacuate the second tower, people who were in the building scrambled for safety, and as a result, the stairwells as well as the elevators were jammed beyond their capacity, and only a few people managed to get out and run, 'like there was no tomorrow'. (11 September, Key Reports and Video) When they were out on the street and thanking God for saving them, they happened to witness the second aircraft that was flying right into the second tower, from which this witness had just escaped
Constitution. A few of Yoo's assertions include: a) any statute attempting to "interfere with" the president's use of military force would be "unconstitutional"; b) "torture" is limited to those acts causing pain "…equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure, or permanent damage resulting…will likely result"; c) waterboarding [torture] and "walling" [pushing an individual into a "flexible wall made of plywood] or "confinement with insects, sleep deprivation for up to eleven days… as well as combinations of these methods, do not constitute torture…"; and d) "the Geneva Conventions do not apply to the Taliban or al Qaeda operatives" (Alexander, p
335). When President Barack Obama released several memos that Yoo and other lawyers had prepared for Bush he said he did so because it was "…a time for reflection, not retribution" (MacAskill, 2009)
For example, Yoo (with Bush attorney Robert J. Delahunty) wrote the following memo: "First Amendment speech and press rights may also be subordinated to the overriding need to wage war successfully" (Russomanno, Joseph, 2011, p
2). As for Yoo, he believed that "…the candid approach would be to admit that our old laws and policies did not address this new enemy [al-Qaeda]…" and in fact Yoo's boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, wrote that the president should declare "…the Taliban and al Qaeda outside the coverage of the Geneva Conventions" (Scharf, 2009, p
And one of the most shocking aspects of the Abu Ghraib torture was that female soldiers were participants in the torture of Iraqi prisoners. The photos show "…service-women grinning, posing, or giving the thumbs-up sign beside the tormented male prisoners" (Titunik, 2009, p
S. Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba" (Van Bergen, et al
war-fighting machine. In fact, contrary to the assumptions of the previous administration, it has been discovered that violent and illiberal movements such as Hamas, Hizballah and the Taliban have deeper roots in native soil (Beinart par, 1)
President, George W. Bush decided to drop North Korea from the terrorism blacklist because North Korea earned the move by showing enough cooperation on broad principles (Kessler par, 3)
from making any transactions with such people or their entities. Later, the order was later amended by adding 39 new names and organizations which were allegedly conducting or supporting terrorism activities (Taylor par, 12)
Constitution and laws. As a result, they state that the right does not exist only to free innocently convicted people but to ensure that no individual is detained because of violation of his/her constitutional rights (Chemerinsky, n
This suspension was upheld after President Bush and the Congress concluded that the prevailing situations necessitated repealing the right to habeas corpus. This resulted in the enactment of the Military Commissions Act that reserved the privilege to all people detained by the United States (Clark, n
Political rulers have usually regarded themselves as gods with powers that are relatively similar to that of divine beings. Habeas corpus has been a significant means in limiting these governmental powers since it has helped to overthrow the arrogant pretense by political authority (Ebeling, 2002)
The relation between the imprisonment of these people and the privilege is the fact that most of them face indefinite imprisonment without being charged with an offense or afforded the status of prisoner of war. However, these detainees have sought to use the proceedings of habeas corpus in order to challenge the legitimacy of their imprisonment (Farrell, 2010)
While American citizens remain free to challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, aliens remain subject to the executive determination of their status as illegal or enemy combatants. Through closing the door for alien detainees, the provision demonstrates that the rights of alien detainees are less significant of protection that those of American citizens (Katyal, 2007)
The habeas corpus petition must demonstrate that the court ordering the incarceration or detention of the person made a legal or factual mistake. Therefore, this writ is the constitutionally granted right of an individual to present evidence before a court of law in attempts to prove that he/she was wrongly imprisoned (Longley, n
during the Civil War, Reconstruction, in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, and in Hawaii during the Second World War. However, the most intriguing suspension of habeas corpus is that by President Lincoln since he claimed the authority that the Constitution seems to grant Congress (Shaw, 2009)
government has also stepped up its surveillance system constructing a highly intricate and controversial eavesdropping data-system base that is run by the National Security Agency and contains trillions of e-mails, web searches and commercial transactions." (McGregor 2011))