09 August 2008

You heard it here first

The Washington Post has an article about the intention of the US military not to release Salim Hamdan when his sentence runs out in six months: "Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, said it has always been the Defense Department's position that detainees could be held as enemy combatants even after acquittal at military commissions or after serving a prison sentence... Defense Department officials said there are concerns about the public perception of holding Hamdan after his prison term runs out, because it could label the military commissions a 'show' process with no meaning to its sentences. They also worry about possible precedents that could be set in US courts if Hamdan's attorneys immediately file a habeas corpus petition seeking his release in five months. Hamdan previously won a Supreme Court case that invalidated the Bush administration's earlier military commissions procedures."

Rico says this guy won't see freedom for quite awhile, if ever...

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