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Hugh Hewitt: What To Do With The Terrorists?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... consequences that will begin to roll up immediately, not the least of which will be the cost associated with the merger of the military tribunal system into the criminal justice system. The safety of the terrorists within the U.S. prison population will also become an issue, as will release issues. The rhetoric of "closing Gitmo" is just the first instance where the reality of governing will prove much more difficult than that of campaigning. While aspects of the aftermath of the Boumediene ruling remain to be worked out via the habeas proceedings underway, a rush to close ...

Hugh Hewitt: What To Do With The Terrorists?
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... consequences that will begin to roll up immediately, not the least of which will be the cost associated with the merger of the military tribunal system into the criminal justice system. The safety of the terrorists within the U.S. prison population will also become an issue, as will release issues. The rhetoric of "closing Gitmo" is just the first instance where the reality of governing will prove much more difficult than that of campaigning. While aspects of the aftermath of the Boumediene ruling remain to be worked out via the habeas proceedings underway, a rush to close ...

Closing Guantanamo Would Be a Good Start, But ...
Daily Kos — ... Sure enough, the Court ruled last summer in Boumediene v. Bush that the MCA unconstitutionally suspended habeas corpus for the detainees. That marked the fourth case in which the Supreme Court made mincemeat of the Cheney-Bush administration’s efforts to make the detainees unpersons in a supposedly jurisdictionless bit of real estate fully operated but not owned by the United States.   ...

Rice: Nazis were less of a threat to the U.S. than al Qaeda; SCOTUS wouldn’t let us try detainees.
Think Progress — ... times -- required the administration to come up with meaningful judicial review of suspects' detentions. Indeed, last June the court held that military commissions "are not an adequate and effective substitute for habeas corpus" and thus " ...

A Small Irony: Boumediene Is Rendered To France
The Atlantic Politics Channel — The terrorism suspect whose case prodded the U.S. Supreme Court to declare that the Great Writ applies to Guantanamo detainees, Lakhdar Boumediene, is on his way to France today, where he'll face terrorism charges. Boumediene stood accused of planning to attack the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo; a U.S. judge ordered him released last year due to a lack of evidence.  In ...

Obama Administration: Guantanamo Detainees Have More Rights than Bagram Detainees, Who Have None
Political Punch — ... . In habeas corpus cases brought by detainees Fadi al Maqaleh, Amin al Bakri and Redha al-Najar against the Obama administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and others argued that the three men, as foreign nationals detained under the law of war, have no right to trials in U.S. courts. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v Bush , which granted habeas rights to Guantanamo detainees, Kagan wrote, “rested heavily on the ‘unique status of Guantanamo’” in terms of “the nature and duration of the United States presence at the site of detention, and the practical ...