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In August of 2003, in a federal courtroom in San Francisco, a lawyer for the United States made an alarming statement. The court, the lawyer argued, was completely powerless to rule on the legitimacy ...

May 2005: Riots break out internationally over alleged abuse of the Koran in Guantanamo Bay. In this court illistration, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, left, appears at a preliminary hearing at Guantanamo Bay.

Challenge to the validity of the military commissions established by President Bush to try detainees as part of the war against terrorism. DECIDED In November 2001, President Bush issued an order ...

CFR Adjunct Fellow Noah Feldman, discussing the legal issues at stake in the upcoming Hamdan decision, says the case will decide whether military tribunals are constitutionally sufficient and warns ...

Hamdan's story could fill a movie, and Poitras does justice to the legal maneuvers that landed Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court. But the center of The Oath turns out to be a man whom ...

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