Friday, March 03, 2006

gitmo is bushites' play pen

and it just rips the very fabric of American compassion. also from today's papers:

The WP reefers lawyers for a Gitmo detainee telling a judge that the force-feeding of their client amounts to abuse under the McCain anti-torture amendment. What's particularly interesting is the administration's response: They argued that Gitmo detainees have no real right to invoke the McCain amendment . That's because the much-less-noticed Graham-Levin amendment says detainees aren't allowed to go to the courts in the first place. As one human-rights lawyer put it,

"The law says you can't torture detainees at Guantanamo, but it also says you can't enforce that law in the courts."

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