[1][2] Initially United States President George W. Bush asserted that captives taken during the "Global War on Terror": This assertion was criticized by many legal scholars, and lawyers who volunteered to represent Guantanamo captives mounted legal challenges in the US Court system.
The first legal challenge to be heard before the United States Supreme Court was Rasul v. Bush.
In particular, it ruled that the Guantanamo captives were entitled to an opportunity to hear, and challenge, the allegations the DoD felt justified their continued extrajudicial detention.
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote that the Department of Defense should convene Tribunals similar to those described in Army Regulation 190-8.
[3] The names of these officers has not been made public, but the captives they represented were: Farouq Saif and Muhammed Khan Tumani.