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Supreme Court Rules Detainees Now Have Legal Rights

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Law, Supreme Court, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, War

Big, big news.
The Supreme Court restored habeas rights for enemy combatants, and thereby acknowledged that the “War on Terrorism” has no discernible end and so detainees should be able to challenge indefinite detention.
More from AP:
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating [...]

June 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

The Yoo Torture Memo

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 9/11, Bad Decisions, Bush, Cheney, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Islam, Law, Military, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, Torture, War

All 70+ pages of it.
Here’s the gist…
In the March 14, 2003 memo, Yoo says the Constitution was not in play with regard to the interrogations because the Fifth Amendment (which provides for due process of law) and the Eighth Amendment (which prevents the government from employing cruel and usual punishment) does “not extend to alien [...]

April 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

This Is Why We Have Trials

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Law, The War On Terrorism

In a war without end, in a war against a tactic, we can not hold the enemy indefinitely. It’s a ludicrous legal argument and we’ve already captured and released a ton of people because we figured out they weren’t terrorists. Some of them weren’t even close. And now we’re seeing even more blood on our [...]

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Gitmo Manual Surfaces

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Military, The War On Terrorism

This is interesting. Wired runs a story about a pdf manual of procedures (link downloads PDF file) the folks at Guantanamo Bay used when processing and dealing with detainees.
From Wired:
The 238-page document, “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures,” is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated “For Official Use Only.” It hit the web [...]

November 14th, 2007 | Permalink| 6 Comments »