Detainees May Be Moved Off Cuba Base

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Senior Bush administration officials are considering moving hundreds of detainees from a facility in Cuba to prisons within the United States in response to Supreme Court rulings this week that granted military prisoners access to U.S. courts, officials said Tuesday.

As attorneys for detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, began preparing the first of hundreds of expected lawsuits demanding that the government justify the detentions, senior administration officials acknowledged that they were unprepared for a rebuke in two landmark Supreme Court decisions that rejected the military's treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism.

Now, after being handed the losses, the administration has been left to scramble to develop a strategy for granting hearings to detainees without having to cope with an unwieldy series of lawsuits throughout the nation.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-detain30jun30,1,7584070.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[Sweetpea]

1. I have a sofa bed.

[Fovea]

2. and we wonder why Ted Olsen skedaddled

outta town...

[Gman]

3. Yup, Ted knew something

and got out while the gittin' was good.