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In a 5-3 vote today, the Supreme Court of the US rejected President's Bush's plan to hold military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, saying it "violated the U.S. Military Code of Justice and the Geneva Conventions".
The ruling also declared that the congressional resolution passed just after 9/11 did not grant President Bush as much power as he has claimed it did.
Article here.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
There's an in-depth, two-page article about this on The Register: page 1 and page 2. It doesn't pull as many punches as the USA Today article does...
-Rob Kelk
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
some follow up and analisis (haven't had time to look for more sources but I would welcome other viewpoints.)
ktla.trb.com/news/la-na-l...tla-news-1