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    The Military Commissions Act of 2006, also known as HR-6166, was an Act of Congress signed by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006. The Act's stated...
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  • The Military Commissions Act of 2009, which amended the Military Commissions Act of 2006, was passed to address concerns by the United States Supreme Court...
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  • Boumediene v. Bush (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Roberts Court)
    writ of habeas corpus under the United States Constitution (and in particular the Suspension Clause) and that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was...
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  • are multiple uses of Military Commissions Act: Military Commissions Act of 2006, passed October 17, 2006 Military Commissions Act of 2009, passed October...
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    in case of trial, shall not be deprived of the rights of fair and regular trial". In the United States, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 codified...
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    Salim Hamdan (category Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States)
    Guantanamo. After passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, Hamdan was tried on revised charges beginning July 21, 2008, the first of the detainees to be...
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    Ibrahim al Qosi (category Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp)
    Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) and the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) at the request of the Bush administration, which suspend...
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  • passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) to authorize a new form of military commissions; the president signed it on October 17, 2006. The MCA...
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  • Mohammed al-Qahtani (category Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp)
    the Military Commissions Act of 2006. It responded to the Court's concerns but mandated the restriction of detainees to the military commission system...
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    response, and in order to permit the commissions to go forward, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). Congress significantly amended...
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  • following the Military Commissions Act of 2006.[citation needed] After the U.S. dismissed United Nations concerns about torture in 2006, one UK judge...
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    and military leaders subject to the War Crimes Act of 1996 if mistreatment was discovered. The adoption of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 marked...
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  • Guantanamo military commissions The boycott has threatened the future of the tribunals, and reduced the credibility of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 as...
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    2006. Archived from the original on April 28, 2007. Retrieved September 16, 2014. Military Commissions Act of 2006 Dorf, Michael C. "Why The Military...
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  • Ghassan al-Sharbi (category Saudi Arabian extrajudicial prisoners of the United States)
    before military commissions authorized under the 2006 act. On October 21, 2008, Susan J. Crawford, the official in charge of the Office of Military Commissions...
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  • the Supreme Court's ruling of lexi Hamdan v. Rumsfeld the United States Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 which contained definitions...
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  • Military Commissions Act of 2006: Military Commissions". www.hrw.org. Retrieved April 27, 2022. US: Courts No Longer Open to Detainees, October 20, 2006, Matt...
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    October 17, 2006. Like the Military Commissions Act of 2006, its successor the Military Commissions Act of 2009 explicitly forbids the invocation of the Geneva...
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    Mustafa al-Hawsawi (category Detainees of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp)
    to military custody at Guantanamo on September 6, 2006. The Bush administration was then confident of passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which...
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  • failed 48–51.) President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) into law on October 17, 2006. With the MCA's passage, the law altered...
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    Mohamed Tahar (category Yemeni extrajudicial prisoners of the United States)
    the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Both these Acts included provisions to close of Guantanamo captives' ability...
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    article: 1. News Release: Military Commission Charges Referred 2. Khadr Arraigned in Military Commissions Hearing The commissions were struck down as unconstitutional...
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    Ramzi bin al-Shibh (category Pages using infobox military person with embed)
    own attorneys, or to boycott their commissions. The commissions authorized by the Military Commissions Act of 2006, did authorize suspects to serve as...
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    Jonathan Turley (category Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law alumni)
    views. In October 2006, in an interview by Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, he expressed strong disapproval of the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Commenting on...
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  • destructive act ascribed to al-Qaeda was the series of attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001. Four commercial jet airliners were hijacked. Two of these...
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    was similar to the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The bill: Redefine surveillance so that only programs that catch the substance of a communication need...
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    Charles Swift (category American military lawyers)
    client's favor. As a result, Congress passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 to authorize a form of military tribunals and incorporate the Court's concerns...
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  • that time, the Bush administration was assured of passage by Congress of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which included provisions preventing detainees...
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    David Hicks (category Pages using infobox military person with embed)
    charges of providing material support for terrorism by the United States Guantanamo military commission under the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Hicks...
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    September 11 attacks, under the military commission system, as established under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA). In Boumediene v. Bush (2008)...
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