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Federal Judge Orders 6 GITMO Detainees Released "Forthwith"
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Federal Judge Orders 6 GITMO Detainees Released "Forthwith" Getting judges involved in national security matters, what could go wrong? U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, in the first ruling to carry out the Supreme Courts June decision on detainees rights, ordered the federal government to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees forthwith. The judge found, however, that the government had justified the continued imprisonment of a sixth detainee, Belkacem ben Sayah. The judge, in an unusual added comment, suggested to senior government leaders that they forgo an appeal of ...
Judge Orders Five Gitmo Detainees Released
TalkLeft —
... Leon told the crowded courtroom. [More....] The government initially detained Boumediene and the other Algerians on suspicion of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo in October 2001. They were transferred to Guantanamo in January 2002.....The Bosnian government already has agreed to take back the detainees, all of whom immigrated there from Algeria before they were captured in 2001. More from ScotusBlog; Reactions: Center for Constitutional Rights; ...
Seven Years
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Today a federal district judge ordered that five Gitmo detainees be released. Greenwald: The five men ordered released today have been imprisoned in a cage by the Bush administration for 7 straight years without being charged with any crimes and without there being any credible evidence that they did anything wrong. If the members of Congress who voted for the Military Commissions Act had their way (see them here and here), or if the four Supreme Court Justice in the Boumediene minority had theirs, the Bush administration would nonetheless have ...
Judge Orders Five of Six "Boumediene" Detainees Freed
Daily Kos —
In another stinging rebuke of the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror, a U.S. District Court Judge has ordered that five Algerian detainees be released. SCOTUSblog has some analysis: U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon, in the first ruling to carry out the Supreme Court’s June decision on detainees’ rights, ordered the federal government to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees "forthwith." The judge found, however, that the government had justified the continued imprisonment of a sixth detainee, Belkacem ben Sayah. ...
"Seven Years Is Enough."
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Judge Richard Leon -- an appointee of George W. Bush -- issued a major ruling following the wake of the Supreme Court's Boumediene decision yesterday, ordering five Guantanamo detainees released "forthwith." He also added comments that echoed Souter's Boumediene concurrence: The judge, in an unusual added comment, suggested to senior government leaders that they forgo an appeal of his ruling on freeing the five prisoners. While conceding that the government had a right to appeal that part of his ruling, Leon commented ...
Judge Leon’s Ruling in the Algerian Detainees Case
Comments from Left Field —
Here is the ruling, via Glenn and SCOTUSblog.
There’s not much detail, since the evidence on which Judge Leon based his decision is classified; but what he says in his ruling is that the government’s evidence for contending that, in 2001, these six men were planning to travel to Afghanistan for the purpose of taking up arms against the United States came from a single unnamed source, and that the Justice Department lawyers could not or would not provide him with the information he needed to ...
The Daily Muck
TPMMuckraker —
... despite the fact that most of it was based on statements the detainee made to interrogators over the years; the legitimacy of statements made by detainees during interrogations has been questioned by judges and legal personnel involved in cases, including Leon himself. While the defense argued that the man was only a cook for the Taliban, Leon said that, in the words of Napoleon, "an army marches on its stomach." Leon had previously ruled in favor of the release of Gitmo detainees. (Washington Post)
According to documents obtained by the Washington ...
