[Tlaloc]

The Supreme Court have ruled that the Geneva Conventions apply to detainees at Gitmo! The Bush administration acquiesced and ordered that all the detainees shall be treated according to the Geneva convention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/11/AR2006071100455.html

The fact is that Gitmo IS within the territorial jurisdiction of US courts, and the President must obey their decisions, as he has! He has not kept these detainees from being protected by the Supreme Court, and he cannot!

[jwalsh07]

The Supreme Court have ruled that the Geneva Conventions apply to detainees at Gitmo! The Bush administration acquiesced and ordered that all the detainees shall be treated according to the Geneva convention.

The Geneva Conventions allow for the holding of unlawful combatants for the duration and they also allow for those unlawful combatants to be held incommunicado. You knew that right?

Moreover it has nothing to do with the FACT that the lease states unequivocally that Cuba is sovereign in GITMO. This isn't hard stuff here friend, what seems to be the problem?

If you indeed are a liberal supporting judicial adventurism by liberals on SCOTUS, just fess up. Then I'll understand.

Liberaliam is a mental illness.

[kabar]

From the article: "After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Bush administration considered Guantanamo Bay a suitable place to hold men suspected of links to the Taliban and al-Qaida, contending that U.S. laws do not apply there because Guantanamo is not part of the United States. Lawyers for the detainees have challenged that interpretation ever since."

You seem to agree with the detainees and the lawyers. Despite some SCOTUS decisions on how the detainees should be treated, there has been no decision that treats them as if they are on US soil. If there were no distinction, Gitmo would have been closed by now. There are still legal advantages to keeping it open, which is prima facie evidence that you are wrong.