Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2008 6:25 am
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Where has this country gone if someone has to go to the supreme fucking court to assert their constitutional right to contest their detention? The political right has done it again. We look just like the Russia and the China that we fault for their "lack of freedom." On top of this W's administration has been torturing these people. We are not going to appreciate just how dark these years have been for a few more years. What pisses me off the most is W putting his little hands together every morning telling the peeps that he is appealing to a higher power.
U.S. Drops Charges for 5 Guantánamo Detainees
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: October 21, 2008
The Pentagon official in charge of military commissions at the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed war crimes charges on Tuesday against five detainees, the latest challenge for the Bush administration’s long-troubled system for prosecuting detainees at the base.
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All five of the cases had been handled by a prosecutor who stepped down in September, saying there were systemic problems with the fairness of the military prosecutions there.
The dismissed charges included those against a detainee accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty bombâ€
Where has this country gone if someone has to go to the supreme fucking court to assert their constitutional right to contest their detention? The political right has done it again. We look just like the Russia and the China that we fault for their "lack of freedom." On top of this W's administration has been torturing these people. We are not going to appreciate just how dark these years have been for a few more years. What pisses me off the most is W putting his little hands together every morning telling the peeps that he is appealing to a higher power.
U.S. Drops Charges for 5 Guantánamo Detainees
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: October 21, 2008
The Pentagon official in charge of military commissions at the naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, dismissed war crimes charges on Tuesday against five detainees, the latest challenge for the Bush administration’s long-troubled system for prosecuting detainees at the base.
Related
All five of the cases had been handled by a prosecutor who stepped down in September, saying there were systemic problems with the fairness of the military prosecutions there.
The dismissed charges included those against a detainee accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive “dirty bombâ€
