Rulings of Improper Detentions as the Bush Era Closes

[kpete]

Source: New York TImes

Rulings of Improper Detentions as the Bush Era Closes

By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: January 18, 2009


By reviewing government documents, court records and media reports, The Times was able to compile an approximate list of detainees currently at Guantánamo.

Over the weekend, the Bush administration flew him home after a military panel concluded that he “should no longer be deemed an enemy combatant.”

Asked about the panel’s decision, which was not publicly announced and seemed to acknowledge a mistake of grand proportions, a Pentagon spokeswoman said, “Mr. Bismullah was lawfully detained as an enemy combatant based on the information that was available at the time.”

The decision was part of a pattern that has emerged in the closing chapter of the administration. In the last three months, at least 24 detainees have been declared improperly held by courts or a tribunal — or nearly 10 percent of the population at the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where about 245 men remain.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/19/washington/19gitmo.html?_r=1&ref=us

[JayMusgrove]

1. Geeze Louizzze! How stupid can American intelligence be!

"At Guantánamo, Mr. Bismullah insisted he was innocent. He told military officials to contact his brother to vouch for him. The officials concluded that the brother was “not reasonably available” as a witness. At the time the brother, Haji Mohammad Wali, was the chief spokesman for a pro-American provisional governor who regularly gave news conferences, legal filings say."

[PSPS]

2. "American Intelligence" has nothing to do with it

These people were confined and tortured, on video, for bush's sexual gratification.

[JayMusgrove]

5. for Bush's sexual gratification? I hate this Prez as much as anyone but....

I don't think he's a sexual sadist, maybe Laura can tell all in a new book.

[Piewhacket]

3. Getting rid of the evidence....

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. talking out of their asses

“Mr. Bismullah was lawfully detained as an enemy combatant based on the information that was available at the time.”


What law exactly? The "enemy combatant" designation was made up to avoid the law.