Nino Scalia is a Lying Sack-o-Sh*t

Here's Antonin Scalia, asshole supreme and total Bush/GOP partisan: "At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo have returned to the battlefield." This was a statement in his dissent in Boumediene v. Bush, the case that decided that Guantanamo detainees have some constitutional rights.

And here is a retort: False, you lying sack of shit and pathetically unqualified Supreme Court hack!

Only a partisan hack like Scalia would play the fear card by announcing, as he did, that the majority's decision "will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed," and only a partisan hack would cite, as Scalia did, testimony that originated with a party in the case before him, i.e., the administration's false claims, as an authoritative source.

And here is the proof of this lying sack-o-shit's bald-faced lies according to some reporting in Truthout.

According to a new report by Seton Hall Law Center for Policy and Research, "The statistic was endorsed by a Senate Minority Report issued June 26, 2007, which cites a media outlet, CNN. CNN, in turn, named the DoD [Department of Defense] as its source. The '30' number, however, was corrected in a DoD press release issued in July 2007, and a DoD document submitted to the House Foreign Relations Committee on May 20, 2008, abandons the claim entirely."

The largest possible number of detainees who could have "returned to the fight" is 12; however, the Department of Defense has no system for tracking the whereabouts of released detainees. The only one who has undisputedly taken up arms against the United States or its allies, "ISN 220," was released by political officers of the DoD against the recommendations of military officers.

As a little experiment, I tried googling "Antonin Scalia and Liar" and got 80,100 results, including:

This entry on Scalia's lies about religion features this passage:

In a decision last year, Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas called on the court to overturn a precedent that allows any taxpayer to go to court to challenge a government program that is alleged to promote religion.

among others.

And then there is this piece, in which Al Franken managed to call out Scalia  on his conflicts of interest in his ties to the likes of Cheney.

And, here is Scalia on torture:

Anyway, what troubles me the most about someone like Scalia lying in such a blatant way about the need to violate basic human rights of based on such bogus, manufactured "evidence" as the claim of "30 prisoners released from Guantanamo returning to the battlefield" is that it pretty much upholds the only rationale left to the right wing in their pathetic attempts to maintain a hold on power. Scalia is seen, by this wing, as the very model of an ideal justice. Just ask John McCain.