Bush. After 9/11, President Bush established that all alien detainees would be held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and be held without any rights pending trial. He felt that because Guantanamo is not formally a part of the United States and strictly held by lease then detention there didn’t entitle the detainees to rights that they would be entitled to within the United States. Lakhdar Boumediene was a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and was being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay. He petitioned the Supreme Court that this was unlawful and On June 12, 2008 in a slim 5-4-majority vote, it was ruled that all prisoners being held on Guantanamo Bay had a right to Habeas Corpus under the Constitution because the base itself was considered sovereign territory.
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Citation: Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009) Parties: Luis E. Melendez: Petitioner Facts: Petitioner was tried in state court on charges for distributing cocaine and trafficked in cocaine, in violation of Mass. Gen. Laws and the prosecution entered into evidence certificates signed by state laboratory analysts, which stated that evidence seized from the petitioner was cocaine. The state called no witness to allow cross examination on the veracity of the report, but relied instead on a state law allowing affidavits of lab analysis to be admitted. Petitioner objected to admission of the certificates, claiming that their admission violated his right under the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to confront the analysts who signed the certificates, but the trial court overruled the objection and admitted the certificates under Mass. Gen. Laws.
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“The Bush administration’s embrace of torture and secret detentions has led our country down a dark hallway,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), who sponsored legislation to restrict CIA interrogations, including banning the CIA from using contractors to question detainees. Indeed, CIA Director Panetta announced such a ban in 2009. Another change proposed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama was the requirement of prompt notification of the International Committee of the Red Cross when a new prisoner enters CIA custody, and the granting of Red Cross access to that detainee. Obama also issued an executive order banning coercive interrogation practices, including waterboarding. President George W. Bush has previously vetoed a Congressional bill that sought to limit CIA interrogators to a shortlist of Army-approved tactics.
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In one point we consider it torture, and another point we consider it necessary. There is also a divide in the political arena as to whether waterboarding is an acceptable way to interrogate prisoners. There is no middle ground; you are either for it or against it. It was approved by the Justice Department under President George W. Bush for use by the Central Intelligence Agency on so-called “high value” terrorism suspects, than barred by President Obama on his second day in office (New York Times, 2011). As you can see one President says yes and the other President says no.
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