Bush Admin-Gitmo Prisoners Have NO RIGHT To Challenge Detentions

[kpete]

Administration: Detainees have no rights
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer


WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said Monday that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have no right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of detainees should be dismissed.

In court documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the Justice Department defended the military's authority to arrest people oversees and detain them indefinitely without access to courts.

It's the first time that argument has been spelled out since President Bush signed a law last month setting up military commissions for the thousands of foreigners being held in U.S. prisons abroad.

Bush hailed the law as a crucial tool in the war on terrorism and said it would allow prosecution of several high-level terror suspects.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/detainees_lawsuits

[mmonk]

1. The fight is not over.

Nor will it be when the congressional dems take office from their wins.

[ThomCat]

2. This SO needs to get slapped down by the courts.

If it has to go all the way up to the Supreme Court to do it, then so be it. This law is the crime!
x(

[Supersedeas]

3. prosecution on the Administration timeline -- whenever/if ever Bush choses

[Solly Mack]

4. Bush is a war criminal - of course he will continue to say this

He won't change his tune now...not after Congress passed a law giving him the tools for continuing his war crimes.

[Richard Steele]

5. EVERYONE has a right to challenge detention.

That's been one of the most basic principles
of our "System of LAW" for about 800 years now.
The B*sh Administration is a CANCER on that system.

Luckily, treatment seems to finally be showing
some small signs of success. But it's still a
long road ahead to the day we can declare that
it has been cured...

[lapfog_1]

6. One of the first good uses of those subpoenas

come January, DOJ officials, the Attorney General, some detainees and their lawyers.

Lay it all out for the American people to see.

[ixion]

7. sorry, Chimpy. America works under the Rule of Law, and is not

a dictatorship, as much as you'd like it to be one.

Can we start investigating these schmucks yet?

[Disturbed]

8. Senator Leahy is putting together a Bill to bring Habeous

Corpus back. If it passes, Busholini will undoubtedly veto it. Will the Congress be able to override that veto?

[halobeam]

9. I think there is a good chance they would be able to override it.

Election day showed the power of the people. They don't have to admit it out loud or anything, but they know to support this insanity, any further... esp. THIS issue, won't fair well for them. Just my opinion.

[WinkyDink]

10. HE needs to be detained indefinitely, incommunicado, trussed up.

Bast**d.