This is not a good day for our troops, nor our national safety. How the **** are ya gonna gather intelligence now? How are they going to prevent another 9/11 or worse?
Seriously, I feel like the country is in danger, and it's all thanks to these no good Marxist lawyers and Moaists in robes in the SC.
It may actually make it easier.
Think about it.
The ruling yesterday ONLY applies to detainees brought to the detention facilities in Cuba.
Doesn't cover any facilities we might decide to set up in one of the 'Stans or that one of them allow us to use for that purpose.
The SCOTUS ruling yesterday has actually laid the groundwork for all of the "secret torture prisons" the DUmmies accuse us of running anyway.
Actually Sarge, I don't think you are correct....based on the analyses that I have studied, the decision is not that "narrow", IOW it appears to apply to any "detainee" that is captured by any US personnel, anywhere in the world........they now have the "right" to petition a federal court for a hearing as to whether or not they are being "legally" detained. This decision DOES NOT
force a trial on the issue, but only a "Habeous" hearing. The decision appears to not displace the "Military Tribunal" system that Congress put into place by law last year.....but I'm certain that that will be next on the agenda.....
Further, we already had "secret prisions" located in several countries in eastern Europe, until some asshole in the CIA "leaked" this information to the Washington Post, NYT, and LAT.......of course, there was a huge liberal outcry, and the countries that were "hosting" these detention centers got cold feet and bowed to international pressure to close them....which we did.....unless there might be some out there that the MSM haven't bribed some GS9 to reveal yet......
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