Detainees in the War on Terror

Jost, Kenneth. "Prosecuting Terrorists: Should suspected terrorists be given military or civil trials?" CQ Researcher March 12, 2010.
President Obama is under fierce political attack for the administration's decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, and Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called Christmas Day bomber, in civilian courts instead of military tribunals. Republican lawmakers argue the defendants in both cases should be treated as “enemy combatants” and tried in the military commissions established during the Bush administration. Administration officials and Democratic lawmakers say criminal prosecutions are more effective, having produced hundreds of convictions since 9/11 compared to only three in the military system. And they insist that Abdulmutallab is providing useful information under interrogation by FBI agents. But the administration is reconsidering Attorney General Eric Holder's original decision to hold Mohammed's trial in New York City and considering making greater use of military commissions with other terrorism cases.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles

FACTS.com - Treatment of Detainees in the 'War on Terror' Research Topic - links to numerous articles.

CQ Researcher

Jost, Kenneth. "Closing Guantánamo: Can Obama close the detention camp within one year?." CQ Researcher February 27, 2009.

Stern, Seth. "Torture Debate: Is the U.S. war on terror legitimizing torture?." CQ Global Researcher September 2007.

Katel, Peter and Kenneth Jost. "Treatment of Detainees." CQ Researcher August 25, 2006.

ProQuest

Subject (terrorism and trials)

(interrogation and memo*) AND (cia or c.i.a. or office of legal counsel or justice department)

Prisoner Treatment AND Guantanamo (350+ full text articles)

Uighur* AND Guantanamo - Chinese Turkic Muslim minority detainees cleared of being 'enemy combatants' (25+ full text articles)

EBSCOhost

SU (terror* and trial*) - 230+ full text articles

(detainee* or prison*) and (interrogat* or torture) and (CIA or Central Intelligence Agency)

SU terroris* and SU ( detention or prisoners ) (375+ full text articles)

( detainee* or guantánamo ) and supreme court (300+ full text articles)

Books

Ball, Howard. Bush, the detainees, and the Constitution : the battle over presidential power in the War on Terror. University Press of Kansas, 2007. Main Collection KF5060 .B35 2007

Brecher, Robert. Torture and the Ticking Bomb. Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007. Main Collection HV8593 .B74 2007

Cassel, Elaine. War on Civil Liberties : How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. In Ebrary. Chicago Review Press, 2007.

Yoo, John. War by Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War on Terror. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. Main Collection HV6432 .Y66 2006

Web

Torture Archive. Natl. Security Archive, George Washington University, 25 Aug. 2009. "...primary source documents...related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States."

United States. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence. Declassified Narrative on DOJ Office of Legal Counsel's Opinions on the CIA Detention and Interrogation Program 22 Apr. 2009

United States. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Inquiry Into the Treatment Of Detainees In U.S. Custody, November 20, 2008. 22 Apr. 2009

Shapiro, Ari. "CIA Officials Won't Face Charges For Waterboarding." Morning Edition. Natl. Public Radio. 17 Apr. 2009. Includes "four Bush-era legal memos describing 'enhanced interrogation techniques' CIA interrogators were allowed to use on some terrorism detainees" released by the U. S. Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC).

United States. White House. Statement of President Barack Obama on Release of OLC Memos. 16 Apr. 2009.

United States. White House. Background: President Obama signs Executive Orders on Detention and Interrogation Policy. 22 Jan. 2009.

• Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities.


• Review of Detention Policy Options.


• Ensuring Lawful Interrogations.


• Review of the Detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.