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Problems and challenges -- The Convention Against Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (CAT), December 10, 1984 -- Statutes dealing with or related to torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment -- American responses to the Third Geneva Convention Relating to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, August 12, 1949 and to the CAT -- The Department of Justice memoranda relating to POWs, detainees, and to torture, 2002-2004 -- Department of Defense and Army investigations of violations of the laws of war in Iraq, 2003-2005, and corrective actions -- Civilian employees of the United States go to war -- The role of Congress : laws and procedures for the trial of unlawful detainees -- The courts become engaged in and are confronted by serious and somewhat novel problems in the context of the separation of powers principle : leading cases -- The decisions of military commissions, June 4, 2007, and subsequent proceedings -- Department of Defense procedures for investigation and release of detainees -- The new army field manual 2-22.3 September 6, 2006 -- The presidential directive of July 20, 2007 on CIA detentions and interrogations : new revelations and the continuing conflict between the White House and Congress -- America and the rule of law -- Conclusion.