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A Short Comment on Current Detainee Policy: One Step Forward and Two Steps Back
Full text linkDuring the Presidential Campaign, President Obama promised to close Guantanamo Bay and to abandon Military Commissions. Shortly after taking office, he halted Military Commissions that were then underway, in order to explore other alternatives. Nearly three years later, Guantanamo Bay remains opens, and President Obama has recently resumed Military Commissions.
With the exception of a lone amendment to the Military Commissions Act, the procedures governing Military Commissions under President Obama and those under President Bush are virtually indistinguishable.
What is distinguishable is that now, under President Obama, many detainees will receive no procedural protections under the Military Commissions Act, but instead will face indefinite detention under rules that afford fewer procedural protections to detain someone for life than previously applied to temporarily hold detainees during war time.
What the Obama Administration gives with one hand, it takes away with the other. Ironically, the Obama Administration affords fewer procedural protections to justify holding detainees indefinitely than President Bush authorized in order to hold detainees during a time of war.
President Obama proposes that, in those instances where insufficient evidence exists to bring detainees to trial, the United States may hold them indefinitely – even after the war ends. This declaration is a step backwards, and could potentially put U.S. troops – and even civilians – at risk for indefinite detention by dictatorial regimes.
The United States holds itself out as a stalwart liberty and an advocate for procedural protections. We consistently criticize countries that hold prisoners in substandard conditions that lack fundamental procedural protections. It is difficult to understand how the United States can hold people it deems “dangerous” forever, while criticizing countries like Iran for doing the same thing to U.S. citizen. The United States should act cautiously when adopting provisions that allow indefinite imprisonment without a trial.
The United States took one step forward when it improved procedural protections contained in the Military Commissions Act, and simultaneously took two steps back when it decided to exclude detainees from these same procedural protections and indefinitely detain them without any trial
Honor bound inside the Guantanamo trials
No full textThe nightmare begins, September 11th, 2001 -- Getting my boots muddy -- Young jags go head to head -- "Follow me" to Fort Benning -- Guantanamo bound, "it don't Gitmo better!" -- A trip to the camp -- Commemorating September 11th -- The U.S. exceeds the Geneva Conventions, and gets burned -- Major General Miller shakes up Gitmo -- The two faces of the international committee of the Red Cross -- Interrogation techniques -- The Department of Justice back-peddles on torture -- A soldier comes home, no room at the inn -- Fallen and wounded soldiers -- Captain Marton and Private First Class Lynch -- Casualty affairs drops the ball -- Home, home on the range -- Twisted logic, terrorism 101 -- Leads turn cold while agents turnover -- Bureaucratic bog down -- Due process for detainees -- Paroling terrorists back to the battlefield -- Justice in Iraqi courts -- Helping prosecutors -- Military commission history and rules -- Back to Guantanamo Bay - Yot a modern day Nuremberg -- Inside military commissions -- Why the Taliban weren't charged, undermining Presidential orders -- Orchestrating trials : Colonels Brownback and Hodges -- Should detainees be able to represent themselves? -- Setting the record straight -- The way forward ith military commissions -- Conclusion : another September 11t
Self-Inflicted Wounds: How Military Regulations Prejudice Service Members
Full text linkThis Article discusses two important facets of Military Regulation and veterans law. First, this Article explores how the Uniform Code of Military Justice treats veterans accused of committing self-injury. Thus, there is a prohibition on , including criminal prosecution of, attempted suicide, which this Article argues exacerbates the issues which many of our brave servicemen and women face upon returning home from combat, often carrying the burden of mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Second, this Article delves into Air Force Regulations, which prohibits termination, without cause, once an officer reaches the rank of Major and has served at least fourteen years. Despite this codified prohibition, the Air Force has been terminating these individuals, without cause, and denying them their accrued retirement benefits. This Article argues that this practice is at best prohibited by Military Regulation and at worst unconstitutional
Self-Inflicted Wounds: How Military Regulations Prejudice Service Members
Full text linkThis Article discusses two important facets of Military Regulation and veterans law. First, this Article explores how the Uniform Code of Military Justice treats veterans accused of committing self-injury. Thus, there is a prohibition on , including criminal prosecution of, attempted suicide, which this Article argues exacerbates the issues which many of our brave servicemen and women face upon returning home from combat, often carrying the burden of mental disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Second, this Article delves into Air Force Regulations, which prohibits termination, without cause, once an officer reaches the rank of Major and has served at least fourteen years. Despite this codified prohibition, the Air Force has been terminating these individuals, without cause, and denying them their accrued retirement benefits. This Article argues that this practice is at best prohibited by Military Regulation and at worst unconstitutional
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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