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Combatant Status Review Tribunal
Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that they could withhold all the protections of the Geneva Conventions to captives from the war on terror. This policy was challenged before the Judicial branch. Critics argued that the USA could not evade its obligation to conduct competent tribunals to determine whether captives are, or are not, entitled to the protections of prisoner of war status.

Subsequently the Department of Defense instituted the Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The Tribunals, however, were not authorized to determine whether the captives were lawful combatants -- rather they were merely empowered to make a recommendation as to whether the captive had previously been correctly determined to match the Bush Presidency's definition of an enemy combatant.

XXX chose to participate in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.
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Allegations
A memorandum summarizing the evidence against XXX prepared for his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, was among those released in March of 2005. The allegations XXX faced were:

Testimony

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Allegations
During the winter and spring of 2005 the Department of Defense complied with a Freedom of Information Act request, and released five files that contained 507 memoranda which each summarized the allegations against a single detainee. These memos, entitled "Summary of Evidence" were prepared for the detainee's Combatant Status Review Tribunals. The detainee's names and ID numbers were redacted from all but one of these memos, when they were first released in 2005. But some of them contain notations in pen. 169 of the memos bear a hand-written notation specifying the detainee's ID number. One of the memos had a notation specifying XXX's detainee ID. The allegations he would have faced, during his Tribunal, were:

Testimony

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Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

The factors for and against continuing to detain %s were among the 121 that the Department of Defense released on March 3 2006.
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Administrative Review Board hearing
Detainees who were determined to have been properly classified as "enemy combatants" were scheduled to have their dossier reviewed at annual Administrative Review Board hearings. The Administrative Review Boards weren't authorized to review whether a detainee qualified for POW status, and they weren't authorized to review whether a detainee should have been classified as an "enemy combatant".

They were authorized to consider whether a detainee should continue to be detained by the United States, because they continued to pose a threat -- or whether they could safely be repatriated to the custody of their home country, or whether they could be set free.

XXX chose to participate in his Administrative Review Board hearing.
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resources

 * Suit leads to disclosure of 5,000 pages of transcripts from secret hearings, ''The Scotsman, March 5 2006
 * Guantánamo detainee told Geneva rights 'irrelevant'
 * Sketches of Guantanamo Detainees-Part II
 * [U.S. releases Guantanamo names
 * U.S. reveals details on Guantanamo detainees after AP FOIA lawsuit
 * Meet the world's most dangerous terrorists
 * Gitmo conditions to improve, Army Times, August 11 2005
 * Abu Bakker Qassim and A’del Abdu Al-Hakim habeas corpus
 * Sanchez torture rules (.pdf) September
 * Sanchez torture rules (.pdf) October
 * Here is the list, according to the Associated Press
 * Full list of Guantanamo detainees issued by Pentagon - World ...
 * [ DoD FOI detainee page]
 * Pentagon releases more Guantanamo detainee names, The Jurist, May 15 2006
 * Profile: Key US terror suspects the 14 transferred to Guantanamo on September 3 2006
 * Secretary of the Navy Gordon England briefing, on October 01, 2004, about CSRT and ARB
 * Field Manual: Human Intelligence Collector Operations
 * JTF -GTMO Information on Detainees, Department of Defense, March 4, 2005
 * Secretary of the Navy Gordon England, Department of Defense, July 09, 2004
 * Guantanamo Detainee Processes, Department of Defense, September 8, 2005''
 * Navy Dentist Stays Busy at Guantanamo Bay Detainee Camp, Department of Defense, February 18, 2005''
 * Guantanamo Detainees Still Yielding Valuable Intelligence
 * Secretary of the Navy England Briefing on Combatant Status Review Tribunal, Department of Defense, July 9, 2004
 * Litigation Forces DoD to Release Names of Some Gitmo Detainees, American Forces Press Service, March 3 2006

categories

 * capture
 * associations
 * justification
 * defenses
 * Guantanamo conditions
 * nationalities
 * official documents
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 * process
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