Federal Appeals Court Is Skeptical of U.S. Evidence in Guantanamo Case »
Posted By Beau7890 4 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsIn the first case to review the government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Muslim from western China held for more than six years were based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified parts of the decision were released on Monday.
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Beau78904 months, 3 weeks ago
From the article:
"With some derision for the Bush administration's arguments, a three-judge panel said the government contended that its accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true because they had been repeated in at least three secret documents.
"The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem "The Hunting of the Snark": 'I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.'
" 'This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever the government says must be treated as true,' said the panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit."
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