Posted on 05/21/2010 5:36:15 PM PDT by UAConservative
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that three men who have been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their imprisonment in American courts. The ruling was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas for indefinite periods without judicial oversight.
In a 26-page panel opinion reversing a lower court, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that three detainees at the military prison at Bagram air base have no right to hearings in which judges would review the evidence against them and could order their release.
The three detainees, two Yemenis and a Tunisian who say they were captured outside Afghanistan, contend that they are not terrorists and are being imprisoned by mistake. But the court said they were not entitled to habeas corpus hearings, citing the fact that Bagram is on the sovereign territory of another government and emphasizing the “pragmatic obstacles” of giving hearings to detainees “in an active theater of war.”
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Works for me.
You can view the opinion of the court here
Are we allowed to say “we told you so”?
Bummer only wants to be liberal with your resources. He is tightwad with his.
Wait a minute, weren’t the libtards fighting to prevent terror suspects from being held like that? Now they are applauding it? Make up your fraking minds people!!!!
They have interesting ideas about prison life.
I hope the court checked this out with the ACLU before releasing its decision...
According to the RATs, it’s only illegal when they’re not in power. Whenever the socialists get control of something, then nothing’s off-limits.
Nice spin NYT. It was a slap down of biblical proportion, or have we already forgotten Guantánamo......?
a victory for Bush not Obama
Non-citizens in a warzone claiming habeas corpus rights? Any President would take the administration’s position.
Right, a victory for Bush and his policies. The one the Dems want to jail the lawyers who approved the policies. I bet a court would say waterboarding is ok too, and not “torture”. Damn McCain and Grahamnesty and all their ilk.
Where are the 250,000 anti-war marchers in DC??
See post 7. They’re not coming. The Pinkos are too busy bowing down to Zero.
not sure how they say this is a victory for obama when it he probably wants them to appeal and then get out
LOL! Bush’s fault!
my thoughts too, this is no win for nobama at all , he probably wants them to appeal and was crying as the other far left kooks were about them being held there
the hypocrisy by the left nuts is astounding
when they’re in power war is OK, holding people OK when Bush was in they was crying every day about it as was their friends the media
A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that three men who have been detained by the United States military for years without trial in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their imprisonment in American courts. The ruling was a broad victory for the Obama administration in its efforts to hold terrorism suspects overseas for indefinite periods without judicial oversight.
Actually, this would seem to be a victory for President BUSH’s policy. Of course the totally uncredible NY Slimes cites it as a victory for Obama, this after having savaged Bush on the subject throughout his presidency. The Slimes can’t go fully insolvent quickly enough for me.
Wouldn’t this be as much a victory for President Bush as well?
Contest time!
What would the New York Times headline have read had Bush been in office when the court reached this decision?
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