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Originally Posted by dc_dux
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 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 that many of the detainees (hundreds?) should never have been there in the first place.....they were not "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 justification.
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QFT!!!
If these 'detainees' had been picked up in combat, it could easily be accepted that gitmo is the place for them, however, that did not happen with most or even all of these people. The 'right' to plead their case belongs to them to determine their status.
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