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The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 [1] [2] (Pub. L. 112–81 (text)) is a United States federal law which, among other things, specified the budget and expenditures of the United States Department of Defense. The bill passed the U.S. House on December 14, 2011 and passed the U.S. Senate on December 15, 2011.
Initially the Bush Presidency asserted that they did not have to release any of the Guantanamo captive's documents.They asserted that no captive apprehended in Afghanistan was entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention, and that those held in the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base were not protected by US law either, because it was not on US territory.
The Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data February 8, 2006, also known as the Denbeaux study (2006), was the first study on Guantanamo prepared under the supervision of Professor Mark Denbeaux of Seton Hall University, the director of its Center for Policy and Research. [20]
The vote was 91-3 in favor of the measure, which authorizes more than $600 billion in defense spending and includes $5 billion in cuts. Defense bill sails through Senate despite Guantanamo ...
Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 June 2010. "Detainee Healthcare". U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System. 14 August 2007. Archived from the original on 17 February 2012. Steven Donald Smith (24 February 2006). "Guantanamo Detainees Being Held Legally, Official Says" (PDF). The Wire (JTF-GTMO). Archived from the original (PDF ...
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, which sets policy for the Pentagon, for the 64th straight year, sending it to the White House for President Joe ...
The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on December 30, 2005. [1] Offered as an amendment to a supplemental defense spending bill, it contains provisions relating to treatment of persons in custody of the Department of Defense, and administration of detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including: [2]
The House passed a defense policy bill that included a provision to ban certain medical care for transgender children of military service members.