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'Landmark' Gitmo Ruling Is a Blow Against Tyranny

Posted Jun 12, 08 6:47 PM CDT in Politics,  US 

(Newser) – Today's Supreme Court decision giving Guantanamo Bay prisoners the right to challenge their detention "will be one of the most celebrated landmark rulings of this generation," Glenn Greenwald writes in Salon. By upholding habeas corpus—a rebuke to the Bush administration and complicit pols of all stripes—the court rescued one of the nation's most important principles.

"The greatest victim of the 9/11 attack has been our core, defining constitutional liberties," writes Greenwald. "Of all the powers seized by this administration in the name of keeping us Safe, the power to imprison people indefinitely with no charges and no real process is the most pernicious."

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In this 2007 file photo, a detainee is escorted by U.S. military personnel at the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
In this 2006 file photo, a detainee peers through a hole used to allow food and other items into detainee cells at Camp Delta detention center at Guantanamo Bay.   (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley,File)
In this May 14, 2008, file photo, a detainee covers his face with his hands in Camp 4 at the Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba.   (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd,File)
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