21st Century U.S. Military: Manual for Military Commissions, Enemy Combatant Tribunals, Trials in the War on Terrorism (CD-ROM)

Completely updated and revised for this new edition, our unique electronic book on CD-ROM has an amazing collection of the finest military documents and resources about military commissions for the prosecution of enemy combatants, with comprehensive DOD material on the history of these cases including famous defendants such as Ali Hamza Ahmed Suleiman Al Bahlul and Salim Ahmed Hamdan. Case material includes charge sheets, commission transcripts, exhibits, appointing authority regulations and orders, briefings, combatant status review tribunals, court motions, GITMO detainee processes, instructions and orders, and much more. The disc provides a complete reproduction of the important new Defense Department document, the Manual for Military Commissions released by Defense Secretary Gates in January 2007. It contains important Defense Department rules for the prosecution of alien unlawful enemy combatants, rules of evidence, crimes, and elements. Executive Summary - January 18, 2007 - Today, the Secretary of Defense is submitting to Congress a comprehensive Manual for the full and fair prosecution of alien unlawful enemy combatants by military commissions, in accordance with the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The Manual is made up of four separate sections: The Preamble, The Rules for Military Commissions, the Military Commission Rules of Evidence, and the Crimes and Elements. The Rules for Military Commissions set forth the procedural rules for Military Commissions. The Military Commission Rules of Evidence provide evidentiary rules to govern the admissibility of evidence at trial. The Crimes and Elements section lays out the crimes punishable by Military Commission and the elements of those crimes. This Manual is the product of a tremendous interagency effort. Principally military judge advocates and attorneys from the Departments of Defense and Justice, using the Manual for Courts-Martial as a guide, undertook the initial drafting. Drafts were then coordinated