Mojo:
In Hamdi v Rumsfeld, the Court struck down the provisions of the Detainee Treatment Act's military commissions because they did not provide detainees the rights comparable to UCMJ or Genenva Conventions.
The latest decision, Boumediene v. Bush, went further and struck down the provisions of the Military Commissions Act and affirmed that detainees have the right to challenge their confinement in federal courts through habeas filing.
And yet all of that ignores the fact that many of the detainees (hundreds?) should never have been there in the first place.....they were not "terrorists" or even alleged terrorists, they did not attack US forces in Afghanistan or Iraq.....they got caught up in the sweep and held for 4+ years w/o any cause. I dont understand how anyone can justify that.
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