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Advisers to Bush: You Asked for It

Posted Jun 21, 08 3:44 PM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts,  Politics 

(Newser) – President Bush ignored warnings that his detainee policy would spark a Supreme Court backlash, the Washington Post reports. Top lawyers both in and outside Washington said that jailing suspects without Congressional approval would push the court to rule on national security—but the White House either ignored the advice or disagreed.

The administration’s “misjudgment and overreaching” ended up weakening presidential authority, a former Bush official said. A senior staffer added, “They kind of reaped what they sowed, and now they have 270 habeas cases.” But a former insider defended the Bush strategy, saying it was undermined by the court’s “gross misreadings of the law and abandonment of sound precedent.”

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Since 2001, the Bush administration has been divided over what to do with al-Qaeda and Taliban members and others picked up in Afghanistan and elsewhere.   (AP Photo)
Hundreds of terrorism suspects were sent to the naval facility at Guantanamo Bay on the theory that it would be easier to keep them outside the formal U.S. court system.   (AP Photo)
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.   (AP Photo)
A detainee peers through a hole used to allow food and other items into detainee cells at Camp Delta detention center on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.   (AP Photo)
Top lawyers say legal advice they gave to the White House about its detainee policy was ignored or discounted.   (AP Photo)
Top lawyers say legal advice they gave to the White House about its detainee policy was ignored or discounted.   (AP Photo)
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