A War Like No Other (47 page)

Hamdi, Yaser Esam,
15–17
,
18–20
,
21
,
38
,
39–40
,
67–68
,
279
,
290n14

    
constitutional rights of,
45–52

    
due process and,
45–52

    
father of,
15
,
47
,
49

    
release to Saudi Arabia,
290n27

Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
,
x–xii
,
xv
,
4–5
,
15–21
,
29
,
30–31
,
33–35
,
38
,
70
,
71
,
79–80
,
98
,
113–14
,
135
,
164–65
,
277–79
,
283–84
,
290n14
,
290n20
,
290n27

    
Breyer and,
278

    
Ginsburg and,
80
,
278

    
Kennedy and,
278

    
O’Connor and,
79–80
,
113–14
,
135
,
164–65
,
278–79
,
290n14
,
290n20

    
Rehnquist and,
279

    
Scalia and,
278–79

    
Souter and,
80
,
278

    
Stevens and,
278–79

    
Thomas and,
278

Harlan, John,
65
,
234

Haynes, William,
174–75

Hezbollah,
129
,
132
,
204

Holder, Eric,
122–23
,
158–59
,
193
,
194
,
232
,
275–78
,
282

    
principle of distinction and,
270

    
proportionality rule and,
270
,
274–75

    
speech at Northwestern Law School,
270
,
274–77
,
281
,
283

    
on targeted killing of U.S. citizens,
274–78

Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
,
xiv–xv
,
201–22

    
Breyer and,
216–18

    
First Amendment and,
202–20

    
free speech tradition and,
207–15

    
Ginsburg and,
216

    
Kagan and,
218

    
Roberts and,
198
,
204–7
,
209–19

    
Sotomayor and,
216

    
Stevens and,
215–16

    
U.S. Congress and,
205–6
,
217

Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
207

Hoover, Herbert,
169

human dignity,
130–33
,
138–39

    
See also
dignity principle

humanitarian intervention,
11

human rights tradition,
130
,
133

Hussein, Saddam,
11
,
21
,
31

immigration proceedings,
5

immunity, state secrets doctrine and,
189–90

imprisonment,
20
,
37–38

    
after acquittal,
158–59

    
of citizens,
163–64

    
constitutionality of,
12–15

    
indefinite,
106
,
148
,
154
,
156–59
,
290n14

    
legality of,
12–15

    
of noncitizens,
163–64

    
Obama’s detention policy,
159–67

    
oversight system,
159–61

    
principle of freedom and,
163

    
rule of law and,
163

    
of unlawful enemy combatants,
158–60

    
without trial,
xiii
,
xiv
,
110
,
119
,
123
,
143–44
,
146–67
,
272–73
,
310–11n8

    
See also
habeas corpus

In Re Yamashita
,
xi
,
125

Insular Cases
,
170

intelligence gathering,
221–22
,
227–58
,
233–39
,
305–6n11

    
See also
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
;
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
;

    
wiretapping

international law,
7–8
,
22

    
authoritative character of,
7–8

    
Iraq War and,
31

    
vs. law of the nation-state,
9

    
torture and,
169
,
172

interrogation,
21–22
,
105
,
110
,
116
,
118
,
157

    
Army Field Manual and,
118
,
175
,
193

    
by CIA,
176

    
coercion and,
108

    
defined as torture,
176

    
enhanced,
176
,
259

    
extraordinary rendition and,
179–80

    
Guantánamo detainees and,
174–76

    
in Israel,
131–32

    
torture and,
168–69
,
172–76

Iraq

    
disarmament obligations after Persian Gulf War,
10

    
invasion of,
5
,
7–8
,
10–11

    
Persian Gulf War and,
10

    
UNSC resolutions against,
10

    
See also
Iraq War

Iraq War,
x
,
4
,
5
,
7
,
21
,
58
,
67
,
105

    
Charter of the United Nations and,
8
,
10–11

    
international law and,
31

    
legality of,
8
,
9–10

    
troop withdrawal from Iraq,
117

Israel,
xiii–xiv
,
125–26

    
constitutional law in,
130

    
cosmopolitanism and,
73–74

    
interrogation in,
131–32

    
jurisprudence in,
126
,
133

    
legislature of (Knesset),
130–31

    
military in,
132–34
,
261

    
national security in,
136

    
parliamentary system of,
130–31
,
135

    
principle of legislative supremacy in,
130–31

    
prohibition of torture in,
131–32

    
security fence in,
133
,
138

    
Supreme Court of,
xiii–xiv
,
126
,
128
,
265
,
281–82
,
283

    
targeted killing and,
133

    
terrorism and,
128–39

Jacoby, Lowell E.,
23
,
40

Japanese Americans, internment during World War II,
45
,
137
,
164

The Judge in a Democracy
(Barak),
126

judicial minimalism.
See
minimalism

Kagan, Elena,
215

    
Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
and,
218

    
United States v. Jones
and,
255

Kalven, Harry,
207

Katz v. United States
,
234–39
,
241
,
244–45
,
249–51
,
254–55

Keith
case,
236–39
,
241
,
244–45
,
249–50
,
255

Kennedy, Anthony,
71
,
74–75
,
307–8n53

    
Boumediene v. Bush
and,
116–17
,
122
,
166
,
247
,
279
,
311n11

    
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
and,
85–86
,
96

    
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
and,
46–48
,
278

    
as minimalist,
69

    
Rasul v. Bush
and,
66–67
,
95

    
United States v. Verdugo-Urquidez
and,
64–67
,
246–47
,
250

killing

    
of enemy combatants,
273–74

    
as integral part of war,
262

    
targeted,
260
,
262–85

Korematsu
case,
137

Kosovo, humanitarian intervention in,
11

Ku Klux Klan,
208

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK),
202
,
204–5
,
209
,
212–13
,
214
,
217
,
219–20

Kurds,
203–4
,
213–14
,
217

Lassiter v. Dept. of Soc. Servs. of Durham County
,
51

The Law As It Could Be
(Fiss),
126–27

lawful combatants

    
categories of,
26–27

    
status of,
20–24
,
26–29

Lindh, John Walker, case,
24–29
,
107
,
149–50
,
164

Madison, James,
218

Marshall, Thurgood,
32
,
64
,
236

material witnesses,
38

Matthews v. Eldridge
,
50–51
,
117

Mayer, Jane,
180

McCain, John,
110–11
,
118
,
179
,
184

metadata, collection of,
222

military commissions,
xiii
,
21–22
,
82
,
93
,
95–96
,
98
,
100
,
107–8
,
110
,
123
,
232
,
295n15

    
authority for the establishment of,
83
,
85–91

    
due process and,
94

    
enemy combatants and,
107–8

    
evidentiary rules and,
120

    
executive branch and,
96

    
Guantánamo detainees and,
101
,
108
,
121
,
156

    
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
and,
81–89