1) and 2) and 3)

a)Habeas corpus was suspended on December 7th, 1941 The writ was suspended in Hawaii during World War II, pursuant to a section of the Hawaiian Organic Act, when martial law was declared in Hawaii in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The period of martial law in Hawaii ended in October 1944, and the Organic Act's authorization of martial law was ruled not to include the power to close civilian courts in Duncan v. Kahanamoku, 327 U.S. 304 (1946).

The 1950 case Johnson v. EisentragerJohnson v. Eisentrager

Johnson v. Eisentrager, , was a lawsuit in which the U.S....
denied access to habeas corpus for nonresident aliens captured and imprisoned abroad in a US-administered foreign court.

b)On April 27, 1861, the writ of habeas corpus was suspended by President Abraham Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana during the American Civil War.
On March 3, 1863, Congress passed the Habeas Corpus Act of 1863. This bill suspended Habeas Corpus across the nation and was passed to rectify Taney's objections in Ex Parte Merryman, that Congress and not the President has the power to suspend Habeas Corpus.

c)In the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis also suspended habeas corpus and imposed martial law

d)October 17, 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended habeas corpus in nine counties in South Carolina, as part of federal civil rights action against the Ku Klux Klan under the 1870 Force Act and 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act.

e)On 29 September 2006, the U.S. House and Senate approved the Military Commissions Act of 2006, a bill which suspended habeas corpus for any alien determined to be an "unlawful enemy combatant engaged in hostilities or having supported hostilities against the United States"
Importantly, the Military Commissions Act does not affect the hundreds of writs for habeas corpus already filed in federal civilian courts on behalf of persons held by the U.S.as unlawful enemy combatants. The Act only suspends the accused person's right to present writs of habeas corpus until after their trial before the military commission has been completed. As explained in a White House Fact Sheet on the Act, "... our courts should not be misused to hear all manner of other challenges by terrorists lawfully held as enemy combatants in wartime."

4)it means one can be detained for a indefinite period of time and can be punished without any evidence that he/she is guilty.

5)No personal feeling because I am not in United States
Source(s):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus_in_the_United_States
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Habeas_corpus
http://www.answers.com/topic/habeas-corpus

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