Review: Guantanamo Detainee Wrongly Held

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- A military review has determined a second prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is wrongly classified as an enemy combatant, and he will be will released to his home country soon, a Pentagon official said Monday.

Navy Secretary Gordon England refused to provide the man's name or nationality, and the circumstances of his original capture were not immediately available. The State Department has been notified of the decision and will make arrangements to return him home.

The prisoner would be the second to be released under a military process instituted to help satisfy the Supreme Court's ruling this summer that prisoners at Guantanamo could challenge their detentions through the U.S. court system.
...
England stopped short of saying the latest prisoner determined to be wrongly classified as an enemy combat had been held as a mistake.

"I don't think there's a right or wrong answer to this. I think this is a gray area," he said.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-bay-detainees,0,229328.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[Newsjock]

1. When there's a lawsuit

... and that person is awarded millions (billions?) of dollars as compensation, remember that you and I will be paying part of that settlement.

The blood is on all of our hands -- yours and mine, too.

[damntexdem]

6. No, the blood is on the hands of the Bushistas.

This 'accepting the blame' for what our enemies do just plays into their bloody hands.

[gottaB]

2. Just how big is this gray area?

"This is a very tough balance. You don't want to release people who could harm Americans or other people. On the other hand, people do have rights."

How very reassuring. So basically you have rights unless you're detained. If it turns that you were detained by mistake, that's the gray area.

[november3rd]

3. sue

Congress and the ACLU should bring Bush, Rumsfeld and Ashcroft up on felony human rights violations charges.

If we let them get away with petty stuff like this, then before we know it, they'll be doing REALLY bad stuff, like lying about blowjobs.

[Bertha Venation]

4. God bless the U.S.A.

:eyes:

[saigon68]

8. Disgusting Criminal Mother Fuckers

I'd thank my lucky stars
to be living here today,
'Cause the flag still stands for freedom
and they can't take that away.

[TahitiNut]

5. Is Gordon England related to Lynndie England? Cousins?

Inquiring minds want to know. :eyes:

[FredScuttle]

7. Guilty before proven innocent

Lord knows what brutality was visited upon this man because our government branded him an "enemy combatant"

I hope that he can forgive us one day.

[Just Me]

9. Question to be presented to SCOTUS:

Whether or not the executive is constitutionally authorized to set up military camps either within or outside U.S. borders designed for the purpose of forcing other human beings, through physical torture and psychological operations (brainwashing) to become intelligence-gathering "slaves" for the U.S. government?

[Rose Siding]

11. Call them "terrorists" and his lawyers say...

he can do anything...

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Addressed to Gonzales’ chief deputy at the time, Tim Flanigan, the memo lays out a line of argument about broad presidential wartime powers that would be repeated time and again in a series of secret memos to the White House about controversial decisions in the war on terror. The arguments pushed by Yoo, a prolific conservative scholar who has since left the Justice Department, reached what many view as its apex nearly a year later when, in another memo written by a colleague Jay Bybee, the Office of Legal Counsel concluded that the president’s powers were so expansive that he and his surrogates were not bound by congressional laws or international treaties proscribing torture during the interrogation of detainees.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6732484/site/newsweek

[Just Me]

12. That interpretation would be tantamount to dictatorship,...

and is clearly ANTI-democracy and ANTI-constitutional since it betrays every balance of power necessary for even a democratic republic.

Does the word "conservative" really means "self-righteous" hypocrite?

[Just Me]

10. Black & White (creatively) at home,..."gray area" beyond,...

,...this despotic BS.

These people,...are,...instable,...

,...and,...they are in charge of a nation that is becoming increasingly vulnerable,...due to their fascist state of mind.

Oh, well. We'll get through this monstrosity. We always do.