Posted on 08/06/2010 4:13:41 AM PDT by tobyhill
Four of the nation's most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned.
The transfer allowed the U.S. to interrogate the detainees in CIA "black sites" for two more years without allowing them to speak with attorneys or human rights observers or challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
Had they remained at the Guantanamo Bay prison for just three more months, they would have been afforded those rights.
"This was all just a shell game to hide detainees from the courts," said Jonathan Hafetz, a Seton Hall University law professor who has represented several detainees.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Too bad these moves were not to the bottom of the ocean.
/ DU idiots
(Check over there on the other side of the electric fence; I'll guarantee you'll see that posted a dozen times on any thread about this news).
Bush had a quixotic side, sometimes to (what many view as) the good, sometimes not. For example he really pushed the persecution/prosecution of the border guard who didn’t file the right paperwork after shooting a dope smuggling illegal immigrant, and he did not move to bring any sanity when the BATFags created questionable “evidence” to bust the owner of a malfunctioning legal gun for having one which was technically not legal on account of the malfunction.
Americans need to understand that those detainees are serious bad guys or else they’d be out of there by now.
Desperados like that CAN’T be released or out of the strictest custody
One could only hope that they were hidden in Alpo cans.
Before Eric Holder’s law firm could set them free.
No court would have freed them anyhow; it was obvious from the amount that they knew and had already told, that they were in the thick of the terror plot. We’re not talking some uninvolved laundry owner nabbed off the street and presented as a spy to the Americans for the sake of some private vendetta. (Which scenario did occur with distressing frequency.)
They are NOT detainees, they are prisoners of war and as such are accorded no civil rights! Other than Geneva Convention which is strained since they are not uniformed soldiers, but guerillas who should be shot once their information is extracted.
Since they were not there at the direction of any court, no court has any jurisdiction over their whereabouts anyway.
Well, we had this non-war “war” going on. The half hearted UOFR. So who was surprised when the USSC said they would split the difference too.
After questioning that is exactly where they should have gone as well as any records of disclosing of their whereabouts.
We don’t have any secrets in this country any more. Security sucks.
“Military secrets are the most fleeting”.
-Mr. Spock
Oh, goody, the MSM gets to start talking about Gitmo and Black Ops and Abu Grahbe, and Bush and McCarthyism and the huMANity!!!!
Methinks they be gettin’ scared of November.
Why are the terrorist’s lawyers Jewish???
Don’t these sons of Abraham realize they’re at the top of the moslem hit list???
I agree. I’d hide them in the back of a transport, put the ramp down and pull up on the stick somewhere between Brazil and Liberia. In fact you could put them on a transport, have the pilot and crew eject and have a bad air accident in the ocean.
The Associated Press has learned what happened in 2003 LOL the msm still working at it’s normal speed.
Since they wear no uniform nor represent any country wouldn’t they be more like spies or those guilty of espionage?
Are they really that different from the elected officials in Washington? Put them in a nice suit and clean them up, give them a teleprompter and their rhetoric isn’t any different. I’m quite sure if they found how effectively you can repeatedly screw the American people and enrich your self while doing it that they would drop violence in favor of Obama Politics. /sarc?/
CNBC, ISGAS.
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