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Key Gitmo Detainee Ordered Released
Wall Street Journal ^ | 3/22/2010 | JESS BRAVIN

Posted on 03/22/2010 2:11:28 PM PDT by tsmith130

A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called "the highest value detainee" at Guantánamo Bay was ordered released by a federal judge in an order issued Monday. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was accused in the 9/11 Commission report of helping recruit Mohammed Atta and other members of the al Qaeda cell in Hamburg, Germany, that took part in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Military prosecutors suspected Mr. Slahi of links to other al Qaeda operations, and considered seeking the death penalty against him while preparing possible charges in 2003 and 2004.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gitmo; judge; military; obama; traitor; treason
U.S. District Judge James Robertson granted Mr. Slahi's petition for habeas corpus, effectively finding the government lacked legal grounds to hold him. The order was classified, although the court said it planned to release a redacted public version in the coming weeks.

Mr. Robertson held four days of closed hearings in the Slahi case last year. Mr. Slahi testified via secure video link from Guantánamo Bay, said his attorney.

"They were considering giving him the death penalty. Now they don't even have enough evidence to pass the test for habeas," said the attorney, Nancy Hollander, of Albuquerque, N.M.

1 posted on 03/22/2010 2:11:28 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: tsmith130
And the beat goes on.
2 posted on 03/22/2010 2:13:38 PM PDT by outofstyle (Anti-socialist)
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To: tsmith130

I feel saver already


3 posted on 03/22/2010 2:14:37 PM PDT by BubbaBobTX ("The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other peoples money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: tsmith130

Is our government capable of getting ANYTHING right?


4 posted on 03/22/2010 2:15:42 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: outofstyle

Redacted all references to the current Justice Department’s petitions maybe???


5 posted on 03/22/2010 2:16:05 PM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: tsmith130

Shat on again...by the bamster.


6 posted on 03/22/2010 2:17:01 PM PDT by Cold Heat
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To: tsmith130

All of our military need to come home....NOW! I DO NOT trust our Muslim president to be in charge of their safety during this war.

GOD HELP US ALL.....


7 posted on 03/22/2010 2:17:56 PM PDT by Shade_Trees_56
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To: tsmith130

Judge James Robertson
Judge Robertson was appointed United States District Judge in December 1994. He graduated from Princeton University in 1959 and received an LL.B. from George Washington University Law School in 1965 after serving in the U.S. Navy. From 1965 to 1969, he was in private practice with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. From 1969 to 1972, Judge Robertson served with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, as chief counsel of the Committee’s litigation offices in Jackson, Mississippi, and as director in Washington, D.C. Judge Robertson then returned to private practice with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he practiced until his appointment to the federal bench. While in private practice, he served as president of the District of Columbia Bar, co-chair of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and president of Southern Africa Legal Services and Legal Education Project, Inc.

A Clinton appointee.


8 posted on 03/22/2010 2:17:58 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: johniegrad

And the answer is “NO”


9 posted on 03/22/2010 2:19:09 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Papa of two new Army Brats! Congrats to my Soldier son and his wife.)
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To: tsmith130

Have any of these terrorists been executed yet?


10 posted on 03/22/2010 2:22:08 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration ("Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people".-John Adams)
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To: tsmith130

There are days where I wonder why I didn’t just become a gutter drunk.

It’s going to be a long week.


11 posted on 03/22/2010 2:23:58 PM PDT by diplomatic_immunity
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To: tsmith130
Ahh, the icing on the health-care cake.
12 posted on 03/22/2010 2:30:23 PM PDT by pke
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To: BubbaBobTX

yeah this is series and hugh


13 posted on 03/22/2010 2:33:04 PM PDT by the long march
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To: diplomatic_immunity

We have a gutter drunk for president.


14 posted on 03/22/2010 2:33:46 PM PDT by Carley (Are you better off now than one year ago? HELL NO!!!!!)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Have any of these terrorists been executed yet?

*********

Good heavens, no. The majority of them have long since been released without any charges.


15 posted on 03/22/2010 2:36:38 PM PDT by Hepsabeth
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To: Shade_Trees_56
All of our military need to come home....NOW! I DO NOT trust our Muslim president to be in charge of their safety during this war.

I DO NOT trust our Muslim president to be in charge of OUR SAFETY during the rest of his presidency. We need our military home to protect us!

16 posted on 03/22/2010 2:49:58 PM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: johniegrad
They are getting it "right", according to the ends they have in mind-America's destruction as a free and sovereign nation.
17 posted on 03/22/2010 2:55:08 PM PDT by mrsmel
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To: ConorMacNessa

Liberal trash is wrecking our civil society.


18 posted on 03/23/2010 12:27:22 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: tsmith130
“They were considering giving him the death penalty.”

Send him down to Texas. We'll take care of it.

19 posted on 03/23/2010 1:14:31 PM PDT by Gabrial (The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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