Supreme Court decision implications--not a blank check!

[nolies32fouettes]

this expands to the illegal wire tapping too.

http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/05pdf/05-184.pdf

Read the pdf which I can not figure out how to copy key excerpts.

Then there's more information here too:

http://www.progressiveu.org/114448-terrorism-and-guantanamo-failures-and-overstepped-bounds

http://www.thinkprogress.org/

[Rose Siding]

1. Also to interrogation tactics-

Lederman at SCOTUSblog:

.....The commissions are the least of it. This basically resolves the debate about interrogation techniques, because Common Article 3 provides that detained persons "shall in all circumstances be treated humanely," and that "o this end," certain specified acts "are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever"—including "cruel treatment and torture," and "outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment." This standard, not limited to the restrictions of the due process clause, is much more restrictive than even the McCain Amendment. See my further discussion here.

This almost certainly means that the CIA's interrogation regime is unlawful, and indeed, that many techniques the Administation has been using, such as waterboarding and hypothermia (and others) violate the War Crimes Act (because violations of Common Article 3 are deemed war crimes).

If I'm right about this, it's enormously significant.

http://www.scotusblog.com/movabletype/archives/2006/06/hamdan_summary.html

[nolies32fouettes]

2. thank you so much! Did you add it to my blog?

Just wondered since I don't want to steal your work.

http://www.progressiveu.org/114448-terrorism-and-guantanamo-failures-and-overstepped-bounds