By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
As President Obama weighed in to support the Ground Zero mosque during a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on Friday, one can only imagine what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, must be saying at Guantanamo.
Detentions of alleged enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) and extraordinary renditions smack more of Franz Kafka's "The Trial" than of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's "Gulag Archipelago," although the question is not free from doubt. But they are not jokes.
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday ruled that federal judges must review all evidence — not just what the military chooses — when detainees now held at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba challenge their status as "enemy combatants."
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit yesterday ruled that federal judges must review all evidence — not just what the military chooses — when detainees now held at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba challenge their status as "enemy combatants."
