Stinging Rebuke: Court UNANIMOUSLY Tells BUSH ADMIN to Reveal ALL Data on Detainees at Guantánamo

[kpete]

By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: July 21, 2007

A federal appeals court ordered the government yesterday to turn over virtually all its information on Guantánamo detainees who are challenging their detention, rejecting an effort by the Justice Department to limit disclosures and setting the stage for new legal battles over the government’s reasons for holding the men indefinitely.

The ruling, which came in one of the main court cases dealing with the fate of the detainees, effectively set the ground rules for scores of cases by detainees challenging the actions of Pentagon tribunals that decide whether terror suspects should be held as enemy combatants.

It was the latest of a series of stinging legal challenges to the administration’s detention policies that have amplified pressure on the Bush administration to find some alternative to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where about 360 men are now being held at the United States naval base.

A three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington unanimously rejected a government effort to limit the information it must turn over to the court and lawyers for the detainees.

more at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/21/us/21gitmo.html?hp

[marmar]

1. Will it end up at the U.S. Supreme Court?

If so, the Fascist Five will again do the wrong thing.

[malaise]

2. We are winning

Bush is a cornered rat.

[seafan]

3. Wonder if the 16 sent to Saudi Arabia last weekend have some particulatly damaging documentation....

Nothing Bu$hCo does is without in-house benefit.


16 Guantánamo captives off to Saudi Arabia

July 16, 2007

The Pentagon this weekend sent 16 long-held Guantánamo captives to Saudi Arabia, among them a man who more than a dozen times attempted suicide in the remote prison camps in southeast Cuba.
Jumah Dossari, 33, was among the best known so-called enemy combatants because his attorneys cast him as a symbol of desperation across five years of legal limbo in U.S. captivity.

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The transfer was among the largest off the remote Navy base -- and comes amid continuing calls by members of Congress to close the detention center.

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