White House appeals to top court on detainee data

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

The Bush administration appealed to the US Supreme Court in an effort to limit the information the government must provide when Guantanamo Bay prisoners challenge their continued captivity.

Administration lawyers appealed a ruling by a federal appeals court that would require the US government to turn over virtually all its information on many detainees as part of the legal review.

The administration argued that it should be required to provide to the appeals court and to defence lawyers only the evidence that had been presented to the military tribunal that designated the prisoner an enemy combatant.

There are about 275 detainees at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which was set up in January of 2002 to handle prisoners captured by the United States following the Sept 11 attacks.



Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/15/2163815.htm

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Supersedeas]

2. Article III of the constitution getting in the way of King George's torture trials

[gratuitous]

3. They must be feeling awfully sure

Either the time is getting short, or the administration is feeling awfully sure about its grab for police state power. They've strung this crap out for years, and now they're willing to submit at last to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. I don't think they're out of nasty little tricks by a long shot, and this could be one last grab at a legacy of fascism.

[fascisthunter]

4. Question is: How Will the Supreme Court Decide?

I have very little confidence in them.