The assault on Habeas Corpus continues

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No dissent in Guantanamo detainee review, Senate told
By Carol Rosenberg | The Miami Herald
Posted on Friday, March 19, 2010

All U.S. intelligence agencies agreed unanimously on which war-on-terror captives now held at Guantanamo can be let go and which alleged terrorists must be held — with or without trial, President Barack Obama's national intelligence director and attorney general told the Senate on Thursday.

The letter itself gave no breakdown to Congress. But the Obama administration leaked in late January that "roughly 110" of nearly 200 long-held foreign prisoners were cleared for transfer -- either to further imprisonment in other countries or outright release.

Thursday's letter says that Central Intelligence Agency analysts were a part of the analysis process, as well as representatives of the FBI and Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA. It was signed by Retired Adm. Dennis Blair, the director of National Intelligence and Attorney General Eric Holder.

In the end, it said, each decision was by agreement of six "senior-level officials" authorized to attend a weekly case review meeting from the Homeland Security, Justice, State and Defense departments, as well as from Blair and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The six who voted unanimously in each case, the letter said, relied upon the work of more than 100 Guantánamo Review Task Force staff members who included FBI and CIA analysts as well as "senior military officers, military prosecutors and national security lawyers."


Rest of article at: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/19/90729/guantanamo-detainees-release-has.html

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2. This must be hope

because it sure ain't change.