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Mon Jul-12-04 10:28 PM
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Pentagon seeks way around high court on Guantanamo detainees |
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Pentagon (news - web sites) wants to circumvent a US Supreme Court ruling allowing inmates at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detention in US courts by creating military tribunals, analysts said. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1521&ncid=703&e=10&u=/afp/20040711/pl_afp/us_attacks_guantanamo
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Mon Jul-12-04 10:55 PM
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The Pentagon clearly does not want to give up control," said Jonathan Turley, a professor at the George Washington University Law School.
"They are clearly unwilling to allow federal judges to decide these cases. The only reason they would not want federal judges to make these decisions is that they believe the federal judges would rule against them," he said.
Turley said that lawyers for the detainees "will challenge the use of these military commissions in a federal court and demand that these detainees be brought before a federal judge."
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