..Big shock, right? If the administration had a conscience at all they would have let the ruling stand, and they would have ended the kangaroo kourts, not stepped them up to be sure they are done before bush leaves office…
By James Rowley and Robert Schmidt
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey called on Congress to limit last [...]
by Ed Martin
http://www.opednews.com
The word that totally refutes the entire Bush administration’s proven lies to get George Bush his Iraq war, the word that Bush fears, dreads and ignores as he goes about killing a whole bunch of innocent people, has been introduced and applied to Bush’s illegal tactics that are based on wishful thinking. The [...]
By Robert Parry
The first Guantanamo Bay “enemy combatant” review case to go before a federal appeals court has offered a peek down the rabbit hole of capricious irrationality that underlies George W. Bush’s [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
In this Dec. 4, 2006 file photo reviewed by the U.S. Military, a detainee peers through a hole used to allow food and other items into detainee cells at Camp Delta detention center on Guantánamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.
Web Extra | A prison camps primer [...]
By Del Quentin Wilber and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
In reversing a military tribunal’s determination that a Chinese detainee was an “enemy combatant,” a federal appeals court criticized the government’s evidence and compared its legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of [...]
Lyle Denniston
Lawyers for the Pentagon and for detainees now held at Guantanamo Bay have already engaged in a debate — at least in summary form — over the meaning of the Supreme Court’s June 12 ruling in Boumediene v. Bush (06-1195). In short, the military lawyers contend that the detainees are now protected by only a [...]
Here are the five steps the US must now take to safely and quickly remove the stain on America’s reputation
After more than six years of constant controversy, it really does look as if Guantánamo’s days as a prison camp are numbered. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Boumediene v Bush further narrowed any legal distinction [...]
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on habeas corpus and suspected terrorist detainees has faded a bit on the political world’s radar, but the McCain campaign continues to believe the issue will benefit their candidate. Indeed, just this afternoon, McCain’s in-house blogger blasted Barack Obama’s campaign for “conflicting answers” on whether Osama bin Laden would be [...]
In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an “enemy combatant”.
The appeal court judges said the Pentagon must either free or transfer Huzaifa Parhat or hold a fresh hearing.
Mr Parhat, a Muslim from China, was captured in [...]
By Mark Impomeni
As the Justice Department struggles to cope with the new realities imposed by the Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush and Al-Odah v. United States, which granted terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in federal court, government lawyers are requesting time to prepare new case documents against [...]
Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda’s Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on [...]
By Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Taliban tortured Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Ginco. They thought he was a U.S. spy. Then, U.S. soldiers called the Syrian native an enemy and shipped him to Guantanamo.
Now, Ginco will be turning a spotlight back on the Bush administration itself. Newly empowered by [...]
By Linda G. Richard
Well, that certainly didn’t take long. On June 12, 2008 the Supreme Court of the United States of America made a historic decision that never should have been necessary. In 2006, Bush found it in the best interest of his agenda to keep the detainees of his war on Afghanistan [...]
By Evan Brown
U.S. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Phoneix) has introduced legislation that would make military courts the arbiters of habeas corpus petitions for Guantanamo detainees, according to a press release from Shadegg’s office. The bill comes in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that prisoners being held by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Bolstered by a U.S. Supreme Court victory, defense attorneys streamed onto this base Monday to consult alleged al Qaeda captives on whether to sue in federal court over their war-on-terror detention.
The lawyers arrived by early-morning charter from Washington, D.C., organized by the Pentagon’s Office of Military [...]
The Supreme Court agrees to examine if high-level officials can be sued for harsh policies.
Bill Kristol revealed that “very soon” — likely as early as next week — McCain and Graham will be introducing legislation to undermine the Supreme Court decision by setting up a “national security court”
View Aligns Him With President
By Juliet Eilperin and Michael D. Shear
PEMBERTON, N.J., June 13 — Republican Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Friday forcefully sided with President Bush in condemning the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to grant access to federal courts for the detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, potentially muddying his reputation as a critic [...]
Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, lawyer for one of five detainees charged in the 2001 terror attacks, said, “There’s just no way the government can proceed on the course they thought.” Lt. Cmdr. William C. Kuebler, right, lawyer for a detainee facing trial, may file a federal court challenge.
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
A day after the Supreme Court’s ruling [...]
THE future of the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention centre is in serious doubt after a landmark Supreme Court ruling that detainees have the protections of the US constitution, including the right to appeal to US courts.
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