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Hope and Change Administration: Detainees have “no constitutional rights”
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... As the Who said, “Meet the new boss — same as the old boss “: Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The ruling has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush. Prof Barbara Olshansky, the lead counsel in a legal ...
Shocker: Obama Administration Rules That Terror Detainees Have No Constitutional Rights
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Hope and change!
Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says.
The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.
Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US.
The ruling has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush.
Prof Barbara ...
Nowhere near enough Change here
Newshoggers.com —
... on the new administration, and the US as a whole.
The first isn't too much of a surprise, in that the Pentagon has decided to report that their treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo is just fine, thank-you very much. I mean, was anybody expecting that an internal review by the Pentagon was going to conclude that the whole lot of them were guilty of violating the Geneva Conventions and thus guilty of war crimes?
Anybody?
The far more troublesome report is this one from the BBC involving the detainees at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. ...
Played
Cold Fury —
... Posted by Mike @ 2:43 PM Saturday, 21 February 2009 I voted for a Messiah, and all I got was this lousy politician : The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush. Prof Barbara Olshansky, the lead counsel in a legal challenge on behalf of four Bagram detainees, told the BBC the ...
Obama Administration Recognizes That Captured Terrorists Outside The US Have No Rights Under The Constitution
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... terrorists . Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says. The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights. Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US. The ruling has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush. Prof Barbara Olshansky, the lead counsel in a legal challenge on behalf of four Bagram detainees, told ...
Obama Sides With Bush on Bagram Detainees
TalkLeft —
... The Obama Administration has advised a federal judge that it agrees with former President Bush's position that detainees at the U.S. military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan have no right to challenge their confinement in U.S. Courts. ...
Department of Justice: Bagram detainees lack constitutional rights.
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Dear hardcore antiwar movement:
Please take this opportunity to writhe in impotent agony as your man-god twists the knife in your entrails.
Love,
The neoconservative movement.
PS: We won. You lost. Again.
PPS: We’ll be sleeping like babies tonight, by the way. It’s one of the perks of being the good guys.
PPPS: Now go back to work! President Obama requires your labor and money on his behalf.
(H/T Hot Air)
Crossposted at Moe Lane. ...
Why does President Obama hate the Constitution?
Sister Toldjah —
Via the BBC:
Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says.
The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.
Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US.
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W Bush.
Prof Barbara ...
Yep, I miss Bush
The Anchoress —
... , after all. Terrorist-suspected detainees do not enjoy constitutional rights, after all. Patriot Act, stays. Whether succeeding presidents will abuse the powers Bush put in place to protect us is rather less a question than a surety. ...
