Dixie - In Memoriam
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377783,00.html
A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
"The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully. "Set aside every other case that's pending in the division and address this case first."
The Bush administration hoped it would never come to this. The Justice Department has fought for years to keep civilian judges from reviewing evidence against terrorism suspects. But a Supreme Court ruling last month opened the courthouse doors to the detainees.
About 200 lawyers, law clerks and reporters sat through the nearly three-hour court hearing. Other lawyers joined by phone for the historic hearing. Attorneys, nearly all of them working for free, have long asked for a judge to scrutinize the evidence, saying the detainees could not be held indefinitely, simply on the government's say-so.
"A day in court on the Guantanamo cases is a treasured moment," said Gitanjali Gutierrez, one of two attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights selected to address the court on behalf of all the lawyers.
There are about 270 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The government has already cleared one of five for release and is just looking for a country to send them to, the Justice Department said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/11/20/56224/judge-orders-release-of-5-guantanamo.html
WASHINGTON — In the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men after concluding the government didn't have the evidence to hold them for nearly seven years in Guantanamo Bay prison.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, was the latest setback for the administration's detention policies and could foretell more court-ordered releases.
Leon, however, backed the continued imprisonment of a sixth Algerian from the same group, concluding that the Justice Department had sufficient evidence he was a supporter of al Qaida.
One of those ordered released is Lakhdar Boumediene, whose appeal to the Supreme Court became the underpinning of a 5-4 decision that gave Guantanamo prisoners the right to challenge their detention in court. Boumediene, 42, had maintained all along that he was a relief worker with the Islamic Red Crescent.
http://www.publicagenda.com/blogs/federal-judge-orders-release-17-gitmo-detainees
A Federal District Court judge, in a major blow to the Bush administration's detention policies, has ordered the release of 17 detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The New York Times reports the men are ethnic Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China, and have been held at the prison since 2002 under the required classification of "enemy combatants." Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered them brought to court on Friday, at which time they are to be released into the care of supporters in the Washington, D.C., area.
The Bush administration - which has long associated the Uighur detainees with terrorist groups in Afghanistan, where they fled to escape Chinese rule - recently conceded that it will no longer try to prove that the 17 men are enemy combatants. Judge Urbina dismissed the Justice Department's arguments on detaining the men as an attempt to assert an executive power of detaining individuals indefinitely without court review. That, said the judge, is "not in keeping with our system of government."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant." The Court recognized the power of the government to detain enemy combatants, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial judge.
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Now let's please stop acting like retarded children with the wild claims that BUSH released terrorists. It's CLEAR who released terrorists, it was LIBERALS!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377783,00.html
A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court.
"The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully. "Set aside every other case that's pending in the division and address this case first."
The Bush administration hoped it would never come to this. The Justice Department has fought for years to keep civilian judges from reviewing evidence against terrorism suspects. But a Supreme Court ruling last month opened the courthouse doors to the detainees.
About 200 lawyers, law clerks and reporters sat through the nearly three-hour court hearing. Other lawyers joined by phone for the historic hearing. Attorneys, nearly all of them working for free, have long asked for a judge to scrutinize the evidence, saying the detainees could not be held indefinitely, simply on the government's say-so.
"A day in court on the Guantanamo cases is a treasured moment," said Gitanjali Gutierrez, one of two attorneys for the Center for Constitutional Rights selected to address the court on behalf of all the lawyers.
There are about 270 detainees being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The government has already cleared one of five for release and is just looking for a country to send them to, the Justice Department said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/11/20/56224/judge-orders-release-of-5-guantanamo.html
WASHINGTON — In the first ruling of its kind, a federal judge ordered the speedy release Thursday of five Algerian men after concluding the government didn't have the evidence to hold them for nearly seven years in Guantanamo Bay prison.
The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon, a Bush appointee, was the latest setback for the administration's detention policies and could foretell more court-ordered releases.
Leon, however, backed the continued imprisonment of a sixth Algerian from the same group, concluding that the Justice Department had sufficient evidence he was a supporter of al Qaida.
One of those ordered released is Lakhdar Boumediene, whose appeal to the Supreme Court became the underpinning of a 5-4 decision that gave Guantanamo prisoners the right to challenge their detention in court. Boumediene, 42, had maintained all along that he was a relief worker with the Islamic Red Crescent.
http://www.publicagenda.com/blogs/federal-judge-orders-release-17-gitmo-detainees
A Federal District Court judge, in a major blow to the Bush administration's detention policies, has ordered the release of 17 detainees from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The New York Times reports the men are ethnic Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China, and have been held at the prison since 2002 under the required classification of "enemy combatants." Judge Ricardo Urbina has ordered them brought to court on Friday, at which time they are to be released into the care of supporters in the Washington, D.C., area.
The Bush administration - which has long associated the Uighur detainees with terrorist groups in Afghanistan, where they fled to escape Chinese rule - recently conceded that it will no longer try to prove that the 17 men are enemy combatants. Judge Urbina dismissed the Justice Department's arguments on detaining the men as an attempt to assert an executive power of detaining individuals indefinitely without court review. That, said the judge, is "not in keeping with our system of government."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamdi_v._Rumsfeld
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
United States Supreme Court case in which the Court reversed the dismissal of a habeas corpus petition brought on behalf of Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen being detained indefinitely as an "illegal enemy combatant." The Court recognized the power of the government to detain enemy combatants, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the ability to challenge their enemy combatant status before an impartial judge.
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Now let's please stop acting like retarded children with the wild claims that BUSH released terrorists. It's CLEAR who released terrorists, it was LIBERALS!
