Judges Cite Need for Reliable Evidence To Hold Detainees

Another Bush rebuke... interesting how this plays out. I've not seen this diaried, if it has been this if for those who like myself missed it.

It would be interesting to see McCain's response. Wow a second court that is saying to the Bushes show us the money in court or shut up. In McCain's and bushes case all the courts including the Supreme Court will have it wrong, interesting how that works.

Judges Cite Need for Reliable Evidence To Hold Detainees

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By Del Quentin Wilber and Josh White
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 1, 2008; Page A03
In reversing a military tribunal's determination that a Chinese detainee was an "enemy combatant," a federal appeals court criticized the government's evidence and compared its legal theories to a nonsensical 19th-century poem.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wrote in a 39-page opinion released yesterday that tribunals and courts must be able to assess whether evidence is reliable before determining the fate of detainees.

That did not happen in the case of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Uighur determined to be an enemy combatant by a tribunal that relied heavily on questionable evidence in classified documents, the appeals court found.

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