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Video Clip: Legal Commentary About the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Description

Vijay Padmanabhan talked about the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Mr. Padmanabhan was formerly an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State under President Bush. He was the department’s chief counsel on Guantanamo and Iraq detainee litigation, as well as other litigation implicating the law of war. He collaborated with the Departments of Justice and Defense on several Supreme Court Cases.

12 minutes

Keywords

  • Al-qaeda
  • Boumediene V. Bush (2008)
  • Branches Of Government
  • Bush V. Gore (2000)
  • Combatant
  • Commander In Chief
  • Congress
  • Constitution
  • Declaration Of War
  • Detainee Treatment Act (2005)
  • Domestic Law
  • Habeas Corpus
  • Hamdan V. Rumsfeld (2006)
  • International Law
  • Johnson V. Eisentrager (1950)
  • Military Commissions Act Of 2006
  • Precedent
  • President
  • Prosecute
  • Rasul V. Bush (2004)
  • September 11th Attacks
  • Standing Army
  • Supreme Court
  • Taliban
  • War On Terror