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  • July 2008

    • Mukasey Can't Reach Dems Across Gulf on Terror Law

      Newsweek  |  Jul 24, 08 4:34 PM CDT

      Mukasey Can't Reach Dems Across Gulf on Terror Law

      (Newser) - The refusal by Democrats to give Michael Mukasey a hearing during a Hill appearance yesterday is evidence of a “huge and poisonous gulf” between the legislative and executive branches that threatens to delay action on judicial process until 2009, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write in Newsweek . The attorney general wants new laws on review for Gitmo prisoners, but Dems were too suspicious to hear the good parts. More »

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      Congress  • Michael Mukasey  • habeas corpus  • Jerrold Nadler  • Boumediene v. Bush

    • Bush Could Decide by Weekend to Close Gitmo

      ABC News  |  Jul 3, 08 3:55 PM CDT

      Bush Could Decide by Weekend to Close Gitmo

      (Newser) - President Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines the central reason to keep prisoners on the Cuban base—to prevent access to courts. More »

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      George W. Bush  • US Supreme Court  • Condoleezza Rice  • Guantanamo Bay  • Cuba  • Robert Gates  • habeas corpus  • Boumediene v. Bush

  • June 2008
  • May 2008

    • Gitmo Defense Lawyers See Case as a 'Privilege'

      Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  May 27, 08 9:32 PM CDT

      Gitmo Defense Lawyers See Case as a 'Privilege'

      (Newser) - Defending a Guantanamo Bay detainee isn't a normal pro bono case for Seattle corporate lawyers used to making $575 an hour, the Post-Intelligencer reports: But Harry Schneider and Joe McMillan say the "effort to rein in" what they see as President Bush's legal abuse is motivation enough. "Even a king can't do that," Schneider says of indignities forced upon Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's alleged driver. More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • Guantanamo prisoners  • lawyer  • military tribunal  • Salim Ahmed Hamdan  • habeas corpus

  • December 2007

    • Gulags in America? Hoover Tried

      New York Times  |  Dec 22, 07 5:56 PM CST

      Gulags in America? Hoover Tried

      (Newser) - J. Edgar Hoover wanted to round up 12,000 Americans he deemed disloyal in 1950, suspend habeus corpus, and lock them up in military and federal prisons, the New York Times reports. In a newly declassified letter, the FBI chief urges President Truman to approve the plan and tell the populace the Soviet-style arrests were necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage, and sabotage.” More »

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      FBI  • Guantanamo Bay  • history  • habeas corpus  • J. Edgar Hoover

  • September 2007
  • June 2007

    • Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

      Reuters  |  Jun 29, 07 10:25 AM CDT

      Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

      (Newser) - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees will have their say before the Supreme Court, which today unexpectedly agreed to hear their cases in the term that begins this fall. The prisoners want permission to challenge their indefinite confinement in federal court. The high court had rejected an identical appeal in April, and the reversal is the first such action in decades, Reuters reports. More »

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      Bush administration  • US Supreme Court  • White House  • Guantanamo Bay  • detainee  • habeas corpus

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