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USA: SECRETARY RUMSFELD ANNOUNCES MILITARY COMMISSION RULES.(Donald H. Rumsfeld )

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, March, 2002

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld outlined the structure of wartime military commissions, the judicial panels ordered by President Bush to try suspected international terrorists. This announcement followed in-depth consultation with military leadership, the Defense Department's general counsel and members of various civilian legal communities.

The military order issued by the Department of Defense includes guidelines for commission civilian and military makeup, trial procedures, admissibility of evidence, defendants' legal safeguards, a review process, and requirements for conviction and sentencing. In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the president issued an order on Nov. 13 that permits non-U.S. citizens to be tried by military commissions. The...

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