No blank check for Bush
TIME AND AGAIN the Bush administration has tried to use its war against terrorism to justify actions that stretch or violate US and international law. Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued a stinging ``no" to one of these practices, trying Guantanamo prisoners in military commissions that lack even the basics of due process.
Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a onetime driver of Osama bin Laden, might well have conspired in terrorism, as the military has charged. But ...
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