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- Rushing Off a Cliff
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  The New York Times rightly rips the cynical and un-American terrorist detention bill nearing passage in the Senate.
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- They Just Keep On Doing It
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  The White House has proposed draft legislation for new special military courts. The Navy's top uniformed lawyer from 1997 to 2000 described the proposed rules as follows: the rules would evidently allow the government to tell a prisoner: "We know you're guilty. We can't tell you why, but there's a guy, we can't tell you who, who told us something. We can't tell you what, but you're guilty."
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- White House proposes ’solution’ to Hamdan case
  Posted by Billbar from Carpet Bag Report
  The new-and-improved military commissions could consider charges against just about anyone, not for being a suspected terrorist, but for a list of offenses Donald Rumsfeld could add to at his own discretion. The accused would not have the right to confront their accusers, or to exclude hearsay accusations, or to bar evidence obtained through torture. The right to a public trial, a speedy trial, and to choose your own military counsel would not apply. Indeed, the commission could try the accused without him or her even being there.
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- New maximum-security jail to open at Guantanamo Bay
  Posted by Billbar from The Independent
  The controversy over the US-run detention center at Guantanamo Bay is to erupt anew with confirmation by the Pentagon that a new, permanent prison will open in the Cuban enclave in the next few weeks.
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- The Court Under Siege
  Posted by Billbar from New York Times
  One big thing we’ve learned from watching President Bush’s assault on the balance of powers is that the federal courts are the only line of defense. Congress not only lacks the spine to stand up to Mr. Bush, but is usually eager to accommodate him. So it is especially frightening to see the administration use the debates over the prisoners at Guant�namo Bay and domestic spying to mount a new offensive against the courts.
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- Justice Department to Congress: Bush 'always right'
  Posted by Billbar from Rawstory
  An exchange between Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Justice Department legal council chief Steven Bradbury regarding prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay ended with Bradbury announcing "the President is always right," RAW STORY has learned. Transcript.
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- The Gitmo Fallout
  Posted by Billbar from MSNBC
  ...what rights captured foreign fighters and terror suspects were entitled to while in U.S. custody. White House hard-liners, led by Vice President Dick Cheney and his uncompromising lawyer, David Addington, made it clear that there was only one acceptable answer. One day, Bowker recalls, a colleague explained the goal: to "find the legal equivalent of outer space"—a "lawless" universe.
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Jeff comments on:
2 Guantanamo detainees’ cases tossed
The entire dysfunctional terror war is reaching its epoch.
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7:54 pm 6/04/07
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Supreme Court blocks Bush, Gitmo war trials
Scalia, Alito and Thomas voted against. Roberts recused himself. These 3 men don't even know right from wrong anymore.
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8:20 am 6/29/06

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