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Attorney General Nominee's Views on Compliance with U.S. Treaty Obligations, Torture, Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions, Revising the Geneva Conventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 99 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 481 - 483
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2005

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1 On administration positions regarding the applicability of the Geneva Conventions, detention of illegal combatants, and torture, see, for example, Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 98 AJIL 820 (2004)Google ScholarPubMed; Bilder, Richard B. & Vagts, Dedev F., Speaking Law to Power: Lawyers and Torture, 98 AJIL 689 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. On Gonzales’s nomination and confirmation hearings, see Lewis, Neil A., Ex–Military Lawyers Object to Bush Cabinet Nominee, N.Y. Times, Dec. 16, 2004, at A32 Google Scholar; Lewis, Neil A., Gonzales Is Likely to Face Hard Questions in Hearings, N.Y. Times, Jan. 3, 2005, at A13 Google Scholar; Eggen, Dan, Gonzales Nomination Draws Military Criticism, Wash. Post, Jan. 4, 2005, at A2 Google Scholar; Jeffrey Smith, R. & Eggen, Dan, Gonzales Helped Set the Course for Detainees, Wash. Post, Jan. 5, 2005, at A1 Google Scholar; Johnston, David & Lewis, Neil A., Bush’s Counsel Sought Ruling About Torture, N.Y. Times, Jan. 5, 2005, at A1 Google Scholar; Lichtblau, Eric, Gonzales Speaks Against Torture During Hearing, N.Y. Times, Jan. 7, 2005, at A1 Google Scholar; Lichtblau, Eric, Senate Panel Delays Vote on Gonzales, N.Y. Times, Jan. 20, 2005, at A18 Google Scholar; Lichtblau, Eric, Senate Panel Approves Gonzales on a Party–Line Vote, N.Y. Times, Jan. 27, 2005, at A21 Google Scholar; Milbank, Dana, Gonzales Will Not Be Blocked, Wash. Post, Feb. 2, 2005, at A4 Google Scholar.

2 Lichtblau, Eric, Gonzales Is Confirmed in a Closer Vote Than Expected, N.Y. Times, Feb. 4, 2005 at A12 Google Scholar; Babington, Charles & Eggen, Dan, Senate Confirms Gonzales, 60 to 36, Wash. Post, Feb. 4, 2005, at A1 Google Scholar.

3 The following series of quoted remarks by Gonzales are all taken from the full transcript of his January 6 appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is available at <http://www.nytimes.eom/2005/01/06/politics/06TEXT–GONZALES.html>. His opening statement is available at <http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1345&wit_id=3936>.

4 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims or International Armed Conflicts, Dec. 12, 1977, 1125 UNTS 3, reprinted in 16 ILM 1391 (1977) [hereinafter Protocol I].

5 For the 1980s debate on Protocol I, see, for example, Roberts, Guy B., The New Rules for Waging War: The Case Against Ratification of Additional Protocol I, 26 Va. J. Int’l L. 109 (1985)Google Scholar, and Aldrich, George H., Progressive Development of the Laws of War: A Reply to Criticisms of the 1977 Geneva Protocol I, 26 Va. J. Int’l L. 693 (1986)Google Scholar.