Today, December 5, is a big day at the Supreme Court. Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights will be fighting for habeas corpus rights for more than 70 Guantanamo detainees in the case of Al Odah v. United States.
This is a big deal. If we lose this case, those detainees may never have a chance at due process. Imagine being stuck in a foreign prison with no rights, and no means to challenge your detention or prove your innocence.
The Bushies say that the Gitmo detainees are "the worst of the worst" and therefore don't deserve basic human rights.
Some of the detainees probably are terrorists. But we have good reason to believe that some are there by mistake -- having simply been at the wrong place at the wrong time, or arbitrarily sold to U.S. troops by bounty hunters.
So let's give each of them a fair trial, in accordance in international law, and sort them out that way. Then punish the true bad guys.
Why is a fair trial so unacceptable to the Bush administration?
>> Click here to read more about this landmark case.
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