Now, I know this will come as a rude shock to us all, so brace yourselves here: "a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims."
While many of us were happy when our Court confirmed that habeas corpus should be alive, well, and utilized, I'm confident we are shocked, shocked, I tell you, to find that it is more than a mere formality. Heavens, could any of us imagine that our government would hold and torture any detainee based merely on their say so? Gosh, no!
I'm quite sure the executive branch is stunned by recent developments, most unexpected as they are.
Linkhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
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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."
Even a "most conservative" judge had trouble buying the Pentagon story on this matter. Of course, since there was no evidence to back the claim, who could imagine the Court would have a problem simple taking the government's word for it that the detainee was a bad guy. I mean, really, would BushCo lie to us?? Of course, the government thinks the problem here is that civilian judges just don't understand military law and circumstance. The problem could never be that the judges don't understand it because it makes no sense to hold someone indefinitely based on a governmental opinion that the detainee is an evil character. After all, he must be a criminal or they wouldn't have captured and held him. Geez, simpletons.
The light of day begins to dawn on the cracks and chinks of the Prince of Darkness, his cohorts, and their perverse activites perpetrated in our name.