McClatchy, once again, brings the journalism.

McClatchy is punching so far above its weight.

I'll read the story now. Thanks Kevin.

Could someone please give me a different link? When I try to get to the article through Kevin's link, I'm booted out of Mozilla.

Related to Habeas is FISA.

Kevin, if Barack Obama doesn't step up to the plate and take a leadership position and stop the House FISA bill by telling Pelosi and Hoyer to shove it up their ass, then people like you have to stop telling me how much better Obama would be than any fucktard Republican we could scrape out of the gutter.

Our candidate needs to lead. He hasn't up till now.

When are you going to demand it from him? In 2011?

I wrote about this guy a couple years ago. He was captured by the Taliban in 2000 and tortured until he confessed to being a spy for the Americans. The Taliban filmed it for propaganda purposes. Then the Americans found the tape in 2001, among that famous stash of terrorist confessions, manuals, etc.

Well, apparently we didn't have any translators working that day, because the Pentagon ended up using the Taliban tape against the guy at his Gitmo "Trial", saying it was a martyrdom confession. Of course they refused to play the video with the audio that would have exonerated him for "National Security Reasons" im sure. This was one of a few videos that John Ashcroft played at press conference in 2001 and it was buried on the FBI site, sans audio, when I downloaded it for posterity.

Anyway, you can read my post about it.
Sex, Lies and Video Tape

Of all the things this administration has done, this has to be one of the worst. The info has been out there for years, but it has never really boiled to the surface and until now. It's about time.

Its time to start releasing all of the slowest runners in Afghanistan that we are holding in Guantanamo and begin cranking up the heat for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

Men who urge the violation of international law and conventions to torture prisoners of war and hold them without hearings are war criminals and have committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The correct Constitutional remedy is impeachment, not allowing the clock to run out and having them walk away with no accountability.

After US forces invaded Afghanistan they offered a few thousand dollars for Taliban and even more for "al Qaeda". It turns out that many of the men handed over to the Americans were just turned in by fellow Afghans to make money or for retribution. They had little to do with the Taliban and next to nothing to do with al Qaeda. But the paranoid authoritarian Cheney-Rumsfeld detention apparatus was late in realizing the low value of these detainees. The world had already become aware of the lawlessness and brutality of the fishing expedition and they moved into deny and defend mode.

Everyman,

Try this:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/41651.html

Thank you, thersites.

I can't get in there, either. I asked my resident geek about the problem and was told perhaps I had firewalled the port. I'm looking into it.

Meanwhile, I googled the habeas corpus/mcclatchy issue and researched it from other sites.

Not like it took a rocket scientist (or Kevin Drum) to "discover" what's going on. We're torturing folks. Many of them are saying whatever needs to be said to stop the torture. Most of them are innocent because they were scooped up for rewards or neighborhood vendettas.

Proud to be an Americaaahn! Sing it everybody!!!

Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data

MARK DENBEAUX
Seton Hall University - School of Law
JOSHUA W. DENBEAUX
Denbeaux & Denbeaux

February 2006

Seton Hall Public Law Research Paper No. 46

Abstract:
The media and public fascination with who is detained at Guantanamo and why has been fueled in large measure by the refusal of the Government, on the grounds of national security, to provide much information about the individuals and the charges against them. The information available to date has been anecdotal and erratic, drawn largely from interviews with the few detainees who have been released or from statements or court filings by their attorneys in the pending habeas corpus proceedings that the Government has not declared "classified."

This Report is the first effort to provide a more detailed picture of who the Guantanamo detainees are, how they ended up there, and the purported bases for their enemy combatant designation. The data in this Report is based almost entirely upon the United States Government's own documents. [emphasis mine] This Report provides a window into the Government's success detaining only those that the President has called "the worst of the worst."

Among the findings of the Report:

1. Fifty-five percent (55%) of the detainees are not determined to have committed any hostile acts against the United States or its coalition allies.

2. Only 8% of the detainees were characterized as al Qaeda fighters. [emphasis mine] Of the remaining detainees, 40% have no definitive connection with al Qaeda at all and 18% are have no definitive affiliation with either al Qaeda or the Taliban.

3. The Government has detained numerous persons based on mere affiliations with a large number of groups that, in fact, are not on the Department of Homeland Security terrorist watchlist.
....
4. Only 5% of the detainees were captured by United States forces. 86% of the detainees were arrested by either Pakistan or the Northern Alliance and turned over to United States custody. This 86% of the detainees captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance were handed over to the United States at a time in which the United States offered large bounties for capture of suspected enemies.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=885659

And only 12% of the American public gives a shit about any of this. Bring on the gladiators!

Check this post by Andrew Sullivan (just referenced by DeLong) about the suspects that were tortured to death, etc., the innocent ones, etc:

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/sweeping-and-wr.html

Just incredible, just disgraceful. Look at the military/state *officials* who call this "war crimes, not aging SDS hippies.