Gov't: Some Gitmo Cases Should Be Scuttled

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration argued Friday that a newly enacted law wipes out hundreds of pending court cases by detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who are challenging their confinement.

In papers filed with a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said the Detainee Treatment Act signed by President Bush on Dec. 30 restricts detainees' rights to reviews by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.

The reviews are limited, said the Justice Department, to the question of whether the detainees have been correctly categorized by the U.S. military as enemy combatants.
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At issue is the legislative intent of the Detainee Treatment Act, a compromise reached among Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.

Lawyers for the detainees and Levin say the new law does not cover pending cases. Graham, Kyl and the Bush administration insist that it does.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-appeals,0,1902179.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[LynnTheDem]

1. America ya really need to get rid of the evil MFing criminal

squatting in the WH.

[enough]

2. Evil incarnate.

[HuffleClaw]

3. contemptable

complete crap imo, they can't just change the rules DURING the process because things aren't going their way. i can't see this claim succeeding, but of course they can appeal to their new pet supreme court and its pretty clear what they will say.