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- an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces
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- Stacy Sullivan, another counterterrorism adviser with Human Rights Watch, said the Military Commissions Act is unclear on what happens if a guilty plea is allegedly coerced from a detainee. Complete Disorder | ATTACKERMAN
- Musa is Amnesty International's official observer of the Military Commission trials at the bay.
- The president has signed a military order, designating me, as secretary of defense, to be responsible for a military commission or tribunal, in the event one is required.
- An official commendation from the Central Military Commission is possible. SONS OF HEAVEN
- If I understand it correctly, the judge's ruling appears to be premised on the notion that the word "dispositive" in section 948dc means "necessary," and that the military commission itself is not the sort of "competent tribunal" described in that section. Balkinization
- That body did not see fit to authorize trials by military commission in Indiana, but by the strongest implication prohibited them.
- Roederer, Boulay, even the Second Consul himself, now perceived how trifling was their influence when they attempted to modify Bonaparte's plans, and two sections of the Council speedily decided that there should be a military commission to judge suspects and "deport" dangerous persons, and that the Government should announce this to the Senate, Corps Législatif, and Tribunate. The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
- Tuesday, the first of them was formally charged in a pretrial hearing before a U.S. military commission.
- The military commission is confirmed as having authority to try even the most serious non-capital offenses with trial panels of only three officers.
- Mora argued that these practices threaten the entire military commission process.
