Excuse me

You're excused. Please don't come in here and fart again, though:

Far be it from me to crash this party of absolute Greenwald syncophants [sic], but as someone who has fought in this war on terror, I thought I should point out a couple things:

I've done my part in the war on terror too. SFW?

1) Greenwald totally ignored Yoo's statements on the implications for future wars, which was the whole heart of his column:

"In World War II, no civilian court reviewed the thousands of German prisoners housed in the U.S...

They didn't ask for it. But FWIW, the petitioners in Ex Parte Quirin did ask for habeas and the U.S.,. Supreme Court heard their case (albeit denying them in the end the relief they sought).

... In a trilogy of cases decided at the end of World War II, the Supreme Court agreed that the writ did not benefit enemy aliens held outside the U.S....

That's a jurisdictional issue. Creating a black hole in GUnantanamo where no courts hold sway (despite the fact that the U.S. has "complete jurisidiction" over Guantanamo) si a different can of worms.

... In the months after the 9/11 attacks, we in the Justice Department relied on the Supreme Court's word when we evaluated Guantanamo Bay as a place to hold al Qaeda terrorists....

Yoo read the cases wrong. The U.S. Supreme Court never said you could create "black holes".

... Soldiers will have to gather "evidence," which will have to be safeguarded until a court hearing, take statements from "witnesses," and probably provide some kind of Miranda-style warning upon capture. No doubt lawyers will swarm to provide representation for new prisoners."

That's what happens when you round up the wrong people and deny them any semblance of due process.

Is this what we want? Should the hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese prisoners during WWII been allowed to hire lawyers and file challenges to their detentions in US courts?

If they'd been picked up in exchange for bounties in Venezuela, yes.

2) And Khaled El-Masri and Maher Arar? Are you joking? These names are only thrown in Greenwald's column for to be inflammatory; ...

They are part and parcel of the maladministration's running rampant over the laws.

... since neither of them were ever held in Gitmo, and are not currently being held by the USA (the "innocent" El-Masri is now being held by the Germans for burning down a department store),...

Any cites to support this (other than your own hallucinations and execrable blog)?

... they are totally irrelevant to this case.

Click my sig for more on what we've done to detainees. Twelve people not just tortured, but killed. Many more brutalised.

As to the Boumediene petitioners, they were picked up by the U.S. after the Bosnian courts ordered them released for lack of evidence....

Cheers,