Dear RNC: we at the @CatoInstitute make no apology for our amicus brief in Al-Marri v. Spagone ...

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Dear RNC: we at the
@CatoInstitute
make no apology for our amicus brief in Al-Marri v. Spagone, on use of Executive military power to detain lawful U.S. residents, ably assisted by Ketanji Brown Jackson, then in private practice. /1 https://cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/al_marri_v_USN.pdf

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We're glad #SCOTUS proceeded to vacate the CA4 ruling at issue. The federal government then prosecuted on civilian charges, which was the correct way to proceed. The constitutional principles at stake were important and protect many other persons. /2, end

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1. Former military heat at Guantanamo said most prisoners were innocent

I forget his name but He said that there was typically no evidence of guilt for those still held. Otherwise they would have been charged. The US paid rewards to those who identified jihadi members, rewards often equal to multiple years incomes. A person pursues your daughter, contrary to your wishes. Falsely charge him, you get a fortune, and your problem goes to Guantanamo. A neighbor shepherd uses a limited water hole for his sheep too. Falsely Charge him and your problem is gone. The former military head at Guantanamo said after he left that he believed most prisoners were innocent. And he was not alone. https://truthout.org/articles/exbush-official-willing-to-testify-bush-cheney-knew-gitmo-prisoners-innocent/

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2. 2007: JAG Officer Takes on His Bosses Over Guantanamo Detainee

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JAG OFFICER TAKES ON HIS BOSSES OVER GUANTANAMO DETAINEE

August 1, 2007 Regular News

JAG officer takes on his bosses over Guantanamo detainee

Gary Blankenship
Senior Editor

To hear Navy Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Swift tell it, he didn’t do anything special.

As a judge advocate general officer, he only represented Salim Ahmet Hamdan, one of the former drivers for Osama bin Laden and one of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In representing his client, he challenged in court his bosses, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush, on the legality of the military commissions they set up to hear cases against the detainees.

He took the challenge, with help from a law professor and a law firm, all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court – and won ( Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 548 U.S. ____, 126 S.Ct. 2749 (2006)). The court ruled that the commission violated not only the Geneva Convention, to which the U.S. is a signatory, but also the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Two weeks after that decision, Swift, who besides his law degree has a master of litigation degree with high honors, learned he had been passed over for promotion. Under the military’s “up-or-out” policy, that meant his 20-plus year military career was ending.

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3. The GQP always only tells half a story.