Guantanamo Bay [AV]

In his latest Scripps Howard column, Cliff May reminds us why the detention facilities in Guantanamo Bay are still necessary to the war on terrorism and rebuts some of the frequent errors propagated about Guantanamo Bay.

Cliff May's column comes at an important time because several newspapers have (again) called for the closure of the detention facility. Also, in the very near future, the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in Hamdan v Rumsfeld, challenging the military commission system designed to try Guantanamo detainees.

Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSBlog comments on what the Bush Administration is hinting it will do if it loses before the Supreme Court.

At a recent event at the American Enterprise Institute, Neal Katyal, counsel for Salim Hamdan (of Hamdan v Rumsfeld fame) before the Supreme Court, explained why the Bush Administration, rather than relying on ad hoc military commissions, should instead try detainees under the courts-martial system.

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[pmelvoin]

Guantanamo Bay--of course, there was no possibility the three were murdered, or so badly tortured that they died, and then made to look like they committed suicide.
We don't do stuff like that, do we?