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Guardian [UK]
by George Monbiot

06/17/08

Three days before Bush arrived in Britain, the US supreme court ruled that the inmates at Guantanamo Bay were entitled to contest their detention in the civilian courts. This is the third time the supreme court has ruled against the prison camp, but on this occasion Bush cannot change the law: the court has ruled that the prisoners’ rights are constitutional. Symbolically the decision could scarcely be more important. Practically it could scarcely be less. The department of defence can transfer its prisoners to an oubliette in another country, where the constitution’s writ does not run. The public atrocity of Guantanamo Bay has provided a useful distraction from something even worse: the sprawling system of secret detention camps the US runs around the world...

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/17/usa.humanrights


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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