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."
Friday, March 03, 2006
gitmo is bushites' play pen
and it just rips the very fabric of American compassion. also from today's papers:
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