White House Reverse Court Ruling on Bagram Detainees

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/wo...litics&emc=rss

The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight.
In a court filing, the Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Judge Bates ruled last week that the three — each of whom says he was seized outside of Afghanistan — could challenge their detention in court.

Bush got bashed by Obama the entire campaign on detainee issues. Now how is this any different? When are people who attacked Bush going to criticize Obama for not giving Habeas-Corpus to people in Afghanistan?

It was never a legitimate legal issue to begin with, just politics to get in the White House so we can get "free" health care or something.

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Also he still has not found a place for GITMO Detainees. I don't see how he will get to close it.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/amer...ry/997763.html

The Obama administration said Monday it has made no decisions on how many of the 240 or so Guantánamo detainees will be moved to U.S. soil, and whether they will be scattered around lockups throughout the United States or concentrated in one place.
Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd also declined to say whether any sites had been ruled out as possible lockups for the men from 30 nations, many of whom have been held at the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba for seven-plus years. …
”There have been no final determinations made at this point with respect to individual detainees and whether or not they might be transferred to one location on U.S. soil, or several locations, or none at all,” Boyd said in response to a query from The Miami Herald.

His 90 promise to shutting the camp down is reaching its deadline

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/wo...litics&emc=rss

Bush got bashed by Obama the entire campaign on detainee issues. Now how is this any different? When are people who attacked Bush going to criticize Obama for not giving Habeas-Corpus to people in Afghanistan?

It was never a legitimate legal issue to begin with, just politics to get in the White House so we can get "free" health care or something.

One could argue detainees in Afghanistan are prisoners of war and subject to local law. They probably get treated better in a US stockade anyway.

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Also he still has not found a place for GITMO Detainees. I don't see how he will get to close it.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/amer...ry/997763.html


His 90 promise to shutting the camp down is reaching its deadline

France will take 1 Algerian. So 239 to go. At this rate he'll be out of office before they're all gone.