Bush agrees to obey Geneva Convention, if only partially

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/06/bush.speech/index.html

Bush was expected to announce that alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is among 14 high-level detainees to be transferred from CIA to Pentagon custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A senior official says the U.S. government will be putting more than one of the detainees on trial before a military tribunal.
Bush will announce that the transferred detainees will get rights under the Geneva Convention once transferred to Pentagon custody....
Bush has said that he wanted to close the Guantanamo facility, which many world leaders have pressured him to do, including allies. But White House spokesman Tony Snow said the president wasn't planning to introduce such a proposal Wednesday, according to The Associated Press.
The president's proposal comes on the same day the Pentagon issued a new directive on detainee treatment. "All detainees shall be treated humanely and in accordance with U.S. law, the law of war, and applicable U.S. policy," the directive says....
In the concurring opinion, Justice Stephen Breyer said, "Congress has not issued the executive a blank check."

"Indeed, Congress has denied the president the legislative authority to create military commissions of the kind at issue here," he wrote. However, he noted, "Nothing prevents the president from returning to Congress to seek the authority he believes necessary."
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The United States has claimed that the Guantanamo detainees are not on U.S. soil and therefore are not covered by the U.S. Constitution.

The government has argued that enemy combatant or "unlawful combatant" status means detainees can be denied legal protections usually afforded prisoners of war, as outlined in the Geneva Conventions.

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