From USA Today, more SOP from the Calvinball Administration: When the refs call an infraction, change the rules. Again:
The Bush administration wants to rewrite the evidentiary documents known as factual returns before federal judges begin hearing habeas corpus petitions from accused terrorists who are being held in Guantanamo Bay, according to the Associated Press."The government wants to submit new records, which would allow it to add new intelligence and expand its reasoning for holding the detainees," the wire service says. "Since the hearings will decide whether the detainees are lawfully being held now---not whether they were lawfully being held over the past several years---the government wants to provide the court its newest, best evidence."
That's the charitable interpretation, of course:
"It's sort of an admission that the original returns were defective," David Remes, a lawyer who represents some of the detainees, tells the wire service. "It's also an admission that the government thinks it needs to beef up the evidence."
Which also begs the question: What kind of new evidence can you cook up compile against someone who's been locked up in your custody for the last five years?
---Vitelius
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