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scotusblog.com - 11/20/2008

Judge orders five detainees freed

— scotusblog.com — 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 ... (more) Judge orders five detainees freed

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washingtonpost.com - 11/20/2008

Federal Judge Orders Release of 5 Guantanamo Detainees

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Judge Orders Release of Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees

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McCarthy Concedes
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... When even the Cheney-Addington fan writes the following, you have some idea of just how dumb and counter-productive Bush's detainee policy has been: ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... declares that Soros's plan is to "buy" Franken by helping him challenge pro-Coleman votes and "steal" the election. And a judge's order to release five Guantanamo Bay detainees–including Lakhdar Boumediene of the recent Supreme Court case on habeas corpus rights–sees mixed reactions. There is a question of where the five Algerians will go after they leave Guantanamo, The Corner's Andy McCarthy warns, while emptywheel's ...

Judge Orders Release of Five Gitmo Detainees
Hit & Run — ... authority of the executive branch to snatch up people and detain people in overseas prisons without ever giving them a trial, possibly ever.  What you won't find is much concern that the Bush administration has been wrong in a disturbing number of these cases about just how dangerous most of the Gitmo detainees really are—which you would think might raise worries that a not insignificant number of them may actually be innocent. National Review's Andy McCarthy nearly gets there: It seems pretty clear that the Bush ...

I Hope This Whole “Imprisoning People Without Evidence” Thing Doesn’t Make People Question the President’s Judgment!
The Agitator — ... of the executive branch to snatch up people and detain people in overseas prisons without ever giving them a trial, possibly ever.  What I didn’t find is much concern that the Bush administration has been wrong in a disturbing number of these cases about just how dangerous most of the Gitmo detainees really are—which you would think might raise the concern that a not insignificant number of them may actually be innocent. National Review’s Andy McCarthy nearly gets there: It seems pretty clear that the Bush administration did not ...

Andy McCarthy and National Review Fail to Correct Factual Error
Comments from Left Field — ... But readers of National Review and Andy McCarthy wouldn’t know any of this.  That’s because, when McCarthy wrote about this ruling on Thursday and vehemently criticized it, he stated, falsely, that Judge Leon was appointed by Bush’s father, not by Bush himself: ...