Added: Jul 8, 2008
From: AssociatedPress
Duration: 1:39
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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TECHKLEC Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - More of your bullshit?
ogjimkenobi Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - How did I know it wouldn't take you long to reply to that? Your like a little bunny. Our soldiers are being killed because our President sent them to into a hostile environment without a plan. Our enemies wear no uniforms because we are fighting a civilian population in there land. Mohammed was either a lunatic conman or simply a fairy tale that never existed. I'm not sure which it is but now that its in my head, I'll make sure to study up on it.
TECHKLEC Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - That's a ridiculous statement and you know it.
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - ogijm: I can tell you do not do much thinking on your own, do you need a bib as well? We are in Iraq to: 1. Rid the world of a failed Dictator that threatend not only the USA but our Allies! 2. We are fighting MUSLIMs in a land they occupy that WE (West) Mainly stupid shit liberal thinking> That thought Muslim would grow out of their rabid dog phase in time! *Note Iran+Iraq+Afghanistan+Pakistan+Israel were ALL UK Colonies! Note* More American lives are lost on bicycles than in Iraq!
procommenter Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - The central govt., masquerading as a federal govt., is illegitimate. The men incarcerated are prisoners, not detainees. They are in a prison, not in a detention center. They are imprisoned, not detained.
neotoy Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - What? There's still a sense of justice in America?? When did this happen?
ogjimkenobi Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - Your analogies are clearly based upon your misunderstanding of history, as well as your preexisting hatred for Muslim and Arabic culture. In any case, after a bit of looking, it seems that most of the Arabic accounts of Muhammed's life are simply fabricated tales designed over intense partisan quarrels about Muhammed's life. There is much doubt about whether or not an actual person called "The Prophet Muhammed" even existed at all. Check out the book "The Quest for the Historical Muhammed".
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - ogjimken: I am not confuse at all! Let me see if you are trying to say that I should ignore all of Islam in the Arabic "Culture" that is still on going today and see if I can get your PC blessing to show contempt: Baby rape, rape, Slavery, Human Butchery(Ya know cutting off body parts) stoning, honor killing, torture, etc.. If you are saying that Muslims believe and ACT upon fabrications how about you get your back back on and go educate them! Here Check out this book= Koran+Hadiths!
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - The should be executed! Or moved next door to the 5 Justices on the Supreme court and allowed to have handguns so the liberals can live what others will have to live with these amimals on the lose!
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - Saddam's Nukes By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT WMD: Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn't fit the media's neat story line that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read More: Iraq | Global War On Terror
marniespeaks Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - If they're throwing all the resources trying to get er done at Gitomo who;s minding the Constitution?
ogjimkenobi Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - 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.
DacGrp Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - 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."
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - Really? Did you read the full article? That is not the same material nor the quantity Nor did any discovery have any records of the other items! That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush's decision to invade
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - But yellowcake wasn't all they found at Tuwaitha. According to the AP, the military also discovered "four devices for controlled radiation exposure . . . that could potentially be used in a weapon." By the way, this should put to rest the canard peddled by the American left and by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that "Bush lied" about Iraq seeking yellowcake from the African country of Niger.
dilibau Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - 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 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - 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.
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - DacGrp: You mis quoted the article! Who is blinded? That means Saddam held onto it for more than a decade. Why? He hoped to wait out U.N. sanctions on Iraq and start his WMD program anew. This would seem to vindicate Bush's decision to invade. The American Thinker Web site reported four years ago on the scary math behind Saddam's uranium hoard: 500 tons of yellowcake, once refined, could make 142 nuclear weapons.
Nin1963 Says:
Jul 9, 2008 - "The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist." Sir Winston Churchill Timely
chinojk Says:
Jul 15, 2008 - nin stop posting you are a moron
Nin1963 Says:
Jul 15, 2008 - chin, you obviously suffer from "Good German" syndrome. Look it up.
AnonymousBChurch Says:
Jul 16, 2008 - 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
AnonymousBChurch Says:
Jul 16, 2008 - 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
CORPARANOID Says:
Sep 2, 2008 - 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
starcatcher888 Says:
Jul 8, 2008 - ogjim: What do you do follow in my footsteps! You call me ignorant? Tell me who you think the enemy is in this war? Iraq? Or Islam? Tell me how many POWs the Muslims have of our Troops! How many POWs? Why are our POWs found beheaded and torutured? Or do you consider them butchering POWs a good thing? What Uniform does the enemy in this war wear? What vile Acts of Mohammed do you condemn? And do you think Mohammed was "Good"?