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President Confirms Secret Detentions, Transfers CIA Detainees to Guantánamo Bay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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References

1 Remarks on the War on Terror, 42 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 1569 (Sept. 6, 2006), available at <http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060906-3.html; see Stolberg, Gay, President Moves 14 Held in Secret to Guantdnamo, N.Y. Times, Sept. 7, 2006, at A1 Google Scholar; Smith, R. Jeffrey & Michael, Fletcher, Bush Says Detainees Will Be Tried, Wash. Post, Sept. 7, 2006, at A1 Google Scholar; Abramowitz, Michael & Charles, Babington, President Shifts Argument, Catches Critics off Guard, Wash. Post, Sept. 7, 2006, at A1 Google Scholar.

2 See Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 100 AJIL 233 (2006)Google Scholar; Shane, Scott & Williams, Margot, Yemenis Freed After Transfer from Secret Prisons, Report Says, N.Y. Times, Apr. 5, 2006, at A10 Google Scholar; White, Josh, 3 U.S.-Detained Yemenis Freed, Rights Group Says, Wash. Post, Apr. 6, 2006, at A11.Google Scholar

3 See Crook, John R., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 100 AJIL 235 (2006).Google Scholar

4 Linzer, Dafna & Kessler, Glenn, Decision to Move Detainees Resolved Two-Year Debate Among Bush Advisers, Wash. Post, Sept. 8, 2006, at A1.Google Scholar

5 See section above: U.S. Supreme Court Finds Military Commissions Created by Presidential Order Unlawful.

6 These passages, along with all the others in this section, are drawn from Remarks on the War on Terror, supra note 1.

7 [Editor’s note: See section below: New Defense Department and Army Directives on Detainees and Interrogation Techniques.]

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