Judge to Bush Admin.: Guantanamo Is Top Priority

PlusJudge to Bush Admin.: Guantanamo Is Top PriorityJudge to Bush Admin.: Guantanamo Is Top PriorityThe Associated PressA federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that the detainees must have their day in court. (July 8)(gitmo file) It was a long in coming SOT: Susan Baker Manning, Center for Constitutional Rights 18:47:010 "The vast majority of men being held at Guantanamo have had cases pending for years upon years and until today have never had a day in court" (Scotus exterior) after last month's Supreme Court ruling that opened courthouse doors to Guantanamo detainees (more detainee file) a Washington judge hosted the first ever hearing over whether they're being held lawfully (group of lawyers 18:48:11) something the detainees lawyers say the Bush administration hoped would never happen SOT: Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights 18:41:22 "Their litigation strategy throughout has been to avoid the day when they actually have to show up in court at a hearing and justify their detention of these men." (White House exterior, followed by Gitmo sign or some exterior) The government says it's already cleared about 20 percent of the roughly 270 Guantanamo detainees for release..and just needs somewhere to send them (Justice Department exterior) while also arguing for more time to bolster the evidence orginally used to justify holding them (Judge Hogan photo in graphic with lettering matching the quote) but Judge Thomas Hogan said he didn't understand why the evidence suddenly needs to be changed, saying "If it wasn't sufficient, then they shouldn't have been picked up" -- and that the Justice Department needs to pick up the pace. SOT: Matt Apuzzo, AP legal affairs writer 18:51:30 "There's nothing going on in the government today that's more important than these cases. The judge told the DOJ, if you need more resources, find em, if you have other cases, put em on the backburner, get these cases done. SOT: Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights 18:38:33 "Today I'm encouraged that the court isn't going to let the government run out the clock." STANDUP: Sagar Meghani 18:54:34 The judge told the DOJ he knows it's complicated and unprecedented, but stressed it must find a way to get things done. And while not setting a date for evidence reviews, the judge indicated he's ready to move much sooner rather than later. Sagar Meghani, The Associated Press, at the federal courthouse, Washington

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[Whitedstrum]

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[CORPARANOID]

Torture is Torture! Do unto other's as you would have done 2yourself. Show some compassion 4your Souls sake. Stand up 4Legal Representation &every individual's right 2a Defense &a Day in court. Gestapo|Nazi tactics are NOT AMERICAN! Is this 1933-1938. No it's 2008 &we are just getting around 2this ISSUE. We should be ASHAMED like those Germans who denied their involvement at Noremburg. Stop Nazi, Storm Troopers, &Gestapo tactics before it's TOO LATE! AMerICAns AWAKEN 2Truth Justice GoldenRULE

[AnonymousBChurch]

watch?v=Vt1-eWU2Ii0

"If the president deems that he's got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of a child, there is no law that can stop him?"

"I think it depends on why the President needs to do that" - John Yoo, United States Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel

[AnonymousBChurch]

Of the interrogators: "You could almost see their dicks getting hard as they got new ideas."

"Torture at Guantánamo was sanctioned by the most senior advisers to the president, the vice president, and the secretary of defense, according to the international lawyer and professor of law at University College London Philippe Sands, who has conducted a forensic examination of the chain of command leading from the top of the administration to the camp at Guantánamo," Vanity Fair

[chinojk]

nin stop posting you are a moron

[DacGrp]

You are to blinded by your emotions to objectively research and support your ignorant opinion.

StrategyPage July 09, 2008

"The uranium oxide was what remained of Saddam's original 1980s nuclear program, the one that was halted by an Israeli air raid in 1981... The uranium oxide has been in storage ever since, and was checked by UN inspectors after the 1991 war."

This was the material that was sent to Canada. Only to the Bush administration and their fanatical followers was this a hidden secret.

[dilibau]

hold your horses on that one, it DIDN'T happen, the very intelligent government is still "reviewing" the evidence for holding those poor souls (meaning they must make up new lies)

[DacGrp]

New York Sun, July 7, 2008

"There hasn't been much of a fuss about this material because it had been discovered already by United Nations inspectors after the first Gulf War."

[ogjimkenobi]

All right, you failed to mention that the article is in the "Opinion" section of the website and is remarkably one sided.

We found this stockpile of yellowcake in 1991, after the first Gulf War. The fact that the only material remaining from his defunct nuclear program in the whole country was a stockpile discovered by U.N. inspectors, only serves to further prove that inspections were indeed working very well.

There is no evidence that Saddam continued with the program after 1991.

[marniespeaks]

If they're throwing all the resources trying to get er done at Gitomo who;s minding the Constitution?