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We bless you Obama, you are "Not the change."
It is amazing to see how during the campaign for President. Obama promised of all that he was different than Bush. But his true colors are showing up.
Date: 2/21/2009 7:28:35 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 2518 times
Siding with Bush, Obama says Afghan detainees have no U.S. rights
The 600-plus detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment, the Justice Department said today in a two-sentence court filing.
Last summer the Supreme Court gave al-Qaeda and Taliban suspects held at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention. But the Justice Department argues that Bagram is different: it's in a war zone and the prisoners are the result of continuing military action.
"They've now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law," said Jonathan Hafetz of the American Civil Liberties Union, who has represented several detainees.
"The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram. "We all expected better."
The decision also disappointed Amnesty International, which issued a report calling for judicial review of the detentions.
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