The lease agreement from 1903 says in article 2 : The American Bar Association announced that : " In response to the unprecedented attacks of September 11 , on 13 November 2001 , the President announced that certain non-citizens of the US would be subject to detention and trial by military authorities . The order provides that non-citizens whom the government deems to be , or to have been , members of the al Qaida organization or to have engaged in , aided or abetted , or conspired to commit acts of international terrorism that have caused , threaten to cause , or have as their aim to cause , injury to or adverse effects on the United States or its citizens , or to have knowingly harbored such individuals , are subject to detention by military authorities and trial before a military commission . " On 28 and 29 September 2006 , the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives , respectively , passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 , a controversial bill that allows the President to designate certain people with the status of " unlawful enemy combatants " thus making them subject to military commissions , where they have fewer civil rights than in regular trials
attacks of September 11
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp