It appears the government has been snark hunting, and McCain is still standing on the side of injustice.
Some would say it doesn't take a student, less a teacher, of Constitutional law to realize the travesties the Bush administration has perpetuated upon the 'terrorists' at Guantanamo, and the American people in who's name they have been done, but thank God we have one in Obama.
In a New York Times article today, "Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case (read in full)", the evidence for holding a detainee has been compared to a poem by Lewis Carroll:
With some derision for the Bush administration's arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.
The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem The Hunting of the Snark: "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."
"This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true," said the panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Here, here! And about damn time. Years in prison for 'he said, she said' and guilt by association. This isn't how I want my America to be run and it isn't acting on my behalf when they treat people much the same as they complain the Taliban did.
McCain is still campaigning against the decision which gives detainees rights of evidence and trial afforded to every American citizen and is refusing to admin that, at the very least, a travesty of justice had been perpetrated upon the detainees and the American people at large.
"I think this is one of the biggest mistakes that's been made in terms of our ability to defend our nation in a long, long time," McCain said, adding its effects would be "quite serious."
Again McCain shows his lack of judgment and his failure to realize the full extent of the government's willingness to violate the Constitution and jail people for years without evidence and without a credible trial.
If we are to be a shining light of democracy then we must do unto others as we wish them to do unto us. This includes verifiable evidence and full-disclosure trials. If they have done wrong then prove it in a court of law and sentence them to the justice they deserve. Locking people up in this way is not what my country is said to stand for and does us no favors.
Pentagon officials have claimed that the Uighurs at Guantánamo were "affiliated" with a Uighur resistance group, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, and that it, in turn, was "associated" with Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
The ruling released Monday overturned the Pentagon’s finding after a 2004 hearing that Mr. Parhat was an enemy combatant based on that affiliation. He and the 16 other Uighurs were detained after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
The court said the classified evidence supporting the Pentagon’s claims included assertions that events had "reportedly" occurred and that the connections were "said to" exist, without providing information about the source of such information.
That McCain doesn't see the hypocrisy of Bush's actions and how they belittle us in the eyes of the world and make a mockery of our justice system, our stated beliefs and the very Constitution itself, which our government is said to uphold and which it decrees as a model for the world, is shocking and needs highlighted in this election.
Obama's support of the Supreme Court's decision shows his leadership, his Presidential worthiness and how he can, and will, uphold the values on which America was founded and be the President we will elect him to be and not a puppet of influences which are not the best interests of the United States or us, it's people.
Sí Se Puede, Obama! Yes we can!