Under what circumstances or of what Act was habeas corpus suspended?

what act allowed for habeas corpus to be suspended under the bush administration? if it was the patriot act, how could that be? if it was under homeland security rules, how did it happen? why did it happen?

yes, i know about GITMO. but tell me exactly why habeas corpus was suspended in bush's administration. when, how and why? and why was it only recently restored?

as far as i know, the president does not have a right to suspend any article of the constitution or amendment thereto--only congress could, yes? or no? why or why not?

please no sarcasm. if you like to say it in one line, that won't do it for me, i will thumb you down. explain what you know.

PS: i heard tell about lincoln suspending it during the civil war, and i find a lot of research on that one. but i also heard that it was suspended during WWII to inter japanese citizens and some german citizens, but can't find much on that one. and i heard that it was suspended at some other time, but when, where, how & why?

Habeus Corpus has never been suspended during the current administration.

It was the governments position that the detainees in Gitmo, since they were not American citizens or residents, were not arrested within the US, and were not detained within the US, were beyond the reach of a Habeus Corpus writ issued by a US court. The Supreme Court disagreed.

Likewise, Habeus Corpus was not suspended during WWII either. The internment of Japanese civilians was done under the authority of a military order. (Order 9066) In 1944 the US Supreme Court held that the internment of American citizens with as little as 1/16 Japanese ancestry was constitutional as a "Military Necessity", based on a government report written by the military and released by the Democratic Party administration.

In 1980 a copy of the original military report was found in the National archives, and it was found that, in fact, the military had said there was no military necessity at all to remove and detain US citizens of Japanese ancestry. The Japanese community at the time, however, was solidly Republican, and California was an important swing State - it was Democrat even then, but narrowly so. The Democrats therefore re-wrote the military report to justify removing the Japanese, cementing their control over CA in the 1942 elections.

Richard