Following are reference materials for the "Is The President Always Right?
An Examination of Presidential Authority" CLE that took place on November
3, 2006. The Presidential Program schedule
and speaker information is available online, as well as a video
of the event in Windows
Media Player format.
| September 25, 2001 |
Yoo memo:
The President’s Constitutional Authority to Conduct Military Operations
Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them |
| November 13, 2001 |
Presidential
Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War
Against Terrorism |
| December 28, 2001 |
DoJ/Office
of Legal Counsel Memo: Possible Habeas Jurisdiction over Aliens Held in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba |
| January 9, 2002 |
DoJ/Office
of Legal Counsel Memo: Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and
Taliban Detainees |
| August 1, 2002 |
Bybee memo
for Gonzalez on Standards of Conduct for Interrogation Under 18 USC 2340 |
| December 30, 2004 |
Levin memo
for Comey on Legal Standards Applicable under 18 USC 2340 |
| September 29, 2005 |
McCain
Amendment: Uniform Standards for the Interrogation of Persons Under the
Detention of the Department of Defense |
| January 24, 2006 |
Prepared
Remarks on Surveillance for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalez at the
Georgetown University Law Center Remarks |
| February 13, 2006 |
ABA Resolution
on Domestive Surveillance |
| February 17, 2006 |
Commands
Responsibility |
| May 2006 |
Fein, Taking
the Stand: A Defining Constitutional Moment (DC Bar Journal) |
| May 14, 2006 |
Turner:
“Legal Eagle on Wiretap Flap” (Washington Times) |
| June 27, 2006 |
Statement
of Bruce Fein before the Senate Judiciary Commission on Presidential Signing
Statements |
| June 29, 2006 |
Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld |
| July 7, 2006 |
Pentagon
Memo on Application of Common Article 3 |
| July 24, 2006 |
ABA Task
Force on Presidential Signing Statements and Separation of Powers |
| August 6, 2006 |
Turner:
“Presidential Signing Statements” (Washington Times) |
| August 9, 2006 |
Tribe:
“Signing Statements” Are a Phantom Target (Boston Globe, p.
A9) |
| Fall 2006 |
Koh, Can
President be Torturer in Chief, 81 Ind. L.J. 1145 (Fall. 2006) |
| Fall 2006 |
Pearlstein,
Finding Effective Constraints on Executive Power: Interrogation, Detention
and Torture, 81 Ind. L.J. 1255 (Fall. 2006) |
| September 6, 2006 |
Ch. 8,
Approach Techniques and Termination Strategies, Army Field Manual (FM2-22.3) |
| October 4, 2006 |
NPR
interview: Yoo Defends Detainee Measures as “Rules of War” |
| October 3, 2006 |
Lawyers
for Detainees Challenge Bush Plan (Washington Post, p. A-6) |
| October 15, 2006 |
Editorial:
“Guilty Until Confirmed Guilty” (New York Times) |
| October 17, 2006 |
Military
Commissions Act of 2006 |
| October 17, 2006 |
Dept. of
Justice letter re Military Commissions Act of 2006 to U.S. Court of Appeals |
| October 18, 2006 |
Dept. of
Justice notice of Military Commissions Act of 2006 to U.S. District Court |