Leave your morals at the border
Truthdig
by Robert Scheer
04/03/07
Onward Bush’s soldiers, torture as ye may, but do it in Guantanamo, and not in the USA. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the habeas corpus plea of a Canadian national, captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old, because the possible deprivation of his human rights was not conducted on ‘U.S. soil.’ The court, with three judges dissenting, cited a law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress last year that the fate of Guantanamo prisoners will be determined by secret military tribunals outside the purview of U.S. courts...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/leave_your_morals_at_the_border/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+military+tribunals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
by Robert Scheer
04/03/07
Onward Bush’s soldiers, torture as ye may, but do it in Guantanamo, and not in the USA. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court turned down the habeas corpus plea of a Canadian national, captured in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old, because the possible deprivation of his human rights was not conducted on ‘U.S. soil.’ The court, with three judges dissenting, cited a law passed by the Republican-controlled Congress last year that the fate of Guantanamo prisoners will be determined by secret military tribunals outside the purview of U.S. courts...
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/leave_your_morals_at_the_border/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=secret+military+tribunals
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
rudkla - 5. Apr, 14:47
