Two stories indicate the lengths the Bush administration is willing to go to keep its military incarceration program confidential. The first involves a Guantanamo detainee requesting a civilian attorney. The Justice Department asserts the person being charged has no right to tell his lawyer of any torture methods used in the secret CIA prison program to extract information. They even protest the possibility of said civilian attorney doing the Vulcan mind meld on his client as this procedure is trademarked by the CIA.
The second case has an American citizen detained in Iraq for 2 months with no charges. The Iranian American went to Iraq to shoot a film. In this case U.S. attorneys want the suit dismissed. Apparently citizen’s constitutional rights don’t extend beyond the physical soil of our native land. In their filing they even show their heavy hand.
In response to the lawsuit, U.S. attorneys cautioned the court to carefully consider getting entangled in military operations overseas and said Kar cannot challenge the government's policies without "a realistic threat that he will again be subject to detention in Iraq by the United States military officers."
If there is one place the Bush administration excels, it is in delivering payback. Otherwise they bumble, stumble, fleece, ignore, steamroll, and generally “Bush up beyond all recognition” anything they touch. “No talk, no trial” can now be added to the Bush strategy of “no information, no invitation” regarding terror.
If you see Bush walking around in a trance like state marked by infrequent tics of “Nt, nt, ni, ni”, you’ll know he just changed his tactics on the war on terror and is directing his minions on the new plan, I mean timetable, ooppss, benchmarks…whatever he is doing that seems to just make matters worse.
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