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      Thank You For A Job Well Done

      Posted by Billbar from firedoglake

      Lt. Cmdr. Swift represents the best of what being a lawyer can be in his conduct in the Hamdan case, and he ought to be rewarded for it. Looks like that reward is going to come in whatever job he's given in the private sector now.

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    • The GOP enacts its drama to perfection

      Posted by Billbar from Salon

      The McCain-Graham-Warner proposal concerning military commissions was, from the beginning, an awful bill that was quite radical in its own right. ... as Yale law professor Jack Balkin explained, that the military can imprison, and torture, a detainee forever without ever bringing the detainee before a military commission, and the detainee has no means at all to challenge his detention or the treatment to which he is subjected. And by masquerading as the principled opponents to a handful of the most extreme provisions in the president's proposals, these "dissident Republican senators" were depicted as the moderates in the debate, as the reasonable, serious thinkers who would carefully balance the need for strong antiterrorist measures with the need to safeguard our basic liberties.

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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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    • 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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    Blumenthal: The imperial presidency crushed

    In his majority opinion, Justice John Paul Stevens' strategic capitalization emphasized the larger point: "The Executive," he wrote, "is bound to comply with the Rule of Law."

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    6:44 am 7/06/06
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