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Obamadminstration: GITMO detainees ‘do not have due process rights’
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... see (rather than anything tangible or lasting) suffered yet another reality-based blow yesterday with the new administration’s claim in federal court that Guantanamo Bay detainees — also known as terrorists who would brutally murder every one of their Leftist defenders without breaking a sweat or losing their smiles — “do not have due process rights” afforded to Americans or civilized human beings as a whole.
According to SCOTUSBLOG:
The Obama Administration, taking its first position in a federal ...
Daily Skim: Detainees, Rally Reality Check, 90s Crisis Amnesia and More
Opinionator —
ScotusBlog : Lyle Denniston on a brief filed by the Obama administration in a case involving four Guantanamo Bay detainees: The brief was another indication that, at least so far, the new Administration is not moving to make a wide-ranging break with detention policies of the former Bush Administration. While President Obama has ordered the closing of Guantanamo by next January, lawyers for the government have taken positions in a variety of detainee court cases that do not propose fundamental change. Big Picture : In a guest post, Bob Bronson, who runs a research firm, says ...
Did Obama Change The National Security Paradigm Today?
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... One decision seems to perpetuate the status quo; the administration endorsed the Bush-era decision to ask that a lawsuit filed by a detainee against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld be thrown out. (The Washington Independent ...
In Court Brief, Obama Administration Says Former Detainees Have No Legal Rights
Politics Daily —
... for the Justice Department submitted a legal brief in the case of Rasul, et al. v. Myers et al., which was remanded to federal district court by the Supreme Court last December. The Court instructed the lower court to reexamine the case and apply the Supreme Court's decision in Boumediene v. Bush, the landmark case from last summer that ruled Guantanamo Bay detainees had the Constitutional right to challenge their detentions in federal court. In its filing, the Obama Administration embraced the position advocated by the Bush Justice Department in the original ...
Torture is Wrong
Mudville Gazette —
... the abuses aren't administration policy, but are actually the actions of a few bad apples: "He stressed the mistreatment did not appear to be directed from above, but was an initiative undertaken by frustrated U.S. army and navy jailers on the ground."
So now that torture is no longer official American policy and is just the actions of a few bad apples, will it ever be appropriate to punish the low-level guys who inflict torture? If so, when?
Meanwhile, back at the ranch: The Obama Administration, taking its first ...
