Talk:Competent tribunal

Gulf War competent Tribunals and Hamdi

I brought up Hamdi when I started this subsection merely because I found the information about the 1300+ competent tribunals convened during the Gulf War in a brief filed on Hamdi's behalf.

I don't understand what the following passage about the SCOTUS's 2004 ruling, in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, has to do with competent tribunals convened in 1991.

The Geneva Conventions were not relevant to this matter of the Hamdi decision, as the Court recognized the power of the government to detain unlawful combatants. It ruled, however, that detainees who are U.S. citizens such as Hamdi must have the ability to challenge their detention before an impartial judge.

Does the point the passage is trying to make belong in this article, or a different article? I dunno. But I don't think it belongs in this subsection of this article. Geo Swan 21:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree it's a bit confusing as stated, but was trying to prevent any confusion that the Hamdi case might itself have been from 1991. It would be better to take out all mention of Hamdi from the section on 1991, but include where it came from in the reference section.

-- Randy2063 22:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Are the AR-190-8 Tribunals specifically designed to fulfill the USA's obligations under the Geneva Conventions?

I have wondered whether some of the wikipedia's articles go too far when relating the AR-190-8 Tribunals with the competent tribunals of the Geneva Conventions. But, I am not worried about that any more. See wikisource:Combatant Status Review Tribunal (fact sheet of October 17, 2006)#Procedural Protections of CSRTs, which states:

CSRTs offer many of the procedures contained in U.S. Army Regulation 190-8, which the Supreme Court specifically cited as sufficient for U.S. citizen detainees entitled to due process under the U.S. Constitution. (Army Regulation 190-8 is used by the DoD when an individual’s status is in doubt, and therefore an Article 5 tribunal is required.)

Mind you, the conclusions drawn in this (cough) fact sheet are highly circular, but it does state, sufficiently clearly to set my mind at ease, that AR 190-8 was drafted specifically to set out specific rules for an administrative procedure that fully complied with the USA's obligations, under the Geneva Conventions, to conduct "competent tribunals".

Cheers! Geo Swan 21:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I've seen that. Some of the wording I used actually comes from the Hamdi decision's description of competent tribunals[1] that gives the name of the source document I listed in the article.

Circular reasoning or not, there's a big problem with the section on CSRTs. There are only a few differences from competent tribunals. The Denbeauxs were critical of CSRTs in comparison to civilian trials. I don't think they mention competent tribunals at all.

-- Randy2063 22:42, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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