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The Denver Postal knight Forget the silver lining By Al KnightFairplay Wednesday, June 30, 2004 - It is not often that the conservative editorial page editors at the Wall Street Journal play the role of Little Mary Sunshine. That's why it was something of a surprise when the Journal on Tuesday ran an editorial putting a smiley face on Monday's Supreme Court ruling that extended the right of habeas corpus to aliens now held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, and perhaps every other U.S. military facility anywhere in the world. The Journal, keep in mind, often articulates a viewpoint...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court dealt a setback to the Bush administration's war against terrorism Monday, ruling that both U.S. citizens and foreigners seized as potential terrorists can challenge their treatment in U.S. courts. AP Photo The court refused to endorse a central claim of the White House since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: that the government has authority to seize and detain terror suspects or their protectors and indefinitely deny access to courts or lawyers while interrogating them. The court did back the administration in one important respect, ruling that Congress gave President Bush (news - web...

The Department of Defense announced today that it transferred three juvenile detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They have been released to their home country today. Defense Department senior leadership, in consultation with other senior U.S. government officials, determined that the juvenile detainees no longer posed a threat to our nation, that they have no further intelligence value and that they are not going to be tried by the U.S. government for any crimes. As with all detainees, these juveniles were considered enemy combatants that posed a threat to U.S. security, and their transfer for release was contingent upon this determination....

WASHINGTON, Jul 25, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- Are there more American Taliban getting ready to pop out of the woodwork? Last month, Pakistani security police announced that they had captured two to six American citizens among Taliban refugees in that country, depending on which media source was reporting the story. But after that first announcement, the story pretty much died without a resolution -- until now. U.S. officials said Thursday that they have no knowledge of such American prisoners, other than the initial reports out of Pakistan. The United States has characterized three men -- John Walker...

It seems that some terrorists have housed themselves within our cities, within our schools, within our churches, within our backyards. This has created a dilemma that our system has not really had to face before; that is, how do we handle domestic terror suspects? A recent appeals court filing by the Justice Department in the Yasser Esam Hamdi case argued that enemy combatants do not have the right to a lawyer. They can be held by the government indefinitely and civilian courts have no standing to intervene. A portion of the filing says the government can call a detainee an...