Nobody Knows Hamdi's Own Story Mr. Hamdi could, in fact, be entirely innocent, and yet the court says there is no judicial recourse. —Georgetown University law professor David Cole, National Public Radio, January 8 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During one of our last conversations, the late Supreme Court justice William Brennan said, "Look, pal, we've always known—the Framers knew—that liberty is a fragile thing." Liberty has become much more fragile under the Bush-Ashcroft-Rumsfeld administration. On December 8, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals handed Bush's team its most significant victory so far in inflicting collateral damage on the Bill of Rights in the...