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Kangaroo Kommission Kickoff Update-15
07/08/08
07:20:04 pm by admin, Categories: Guantanamo, Kangaroo Military Commissions, Detainees, Pictures , Tags: detainees, guantanamo, habeas corpus, khalid shaikh mohammed, military commissions, military commissions act 2006, mohammed al-qahtani, mustafa ahmed al-hawsawi, ramzi bin al-shibh, walid bin attash Originally published June 13, 2008; Updated and Republished July 08, 2008:
The United States Attorney General, Michael Mukasey has stated that the Kangaroo Kommissions will go forward. Yesterday's United States Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v Bush (06-1195 pdf 650K) makes it very unlikely that the Kangaroo Kommissions will proceed as scheduled or intended by the current administration. It is much more likely that the administration will soon find itself in a designated multi-district litigation1 United States District Court responding to a mountain of Habeas Corpus petitions on behalf of all detainees. The petitions will no doubt include the so called "high-value" detainees scheduled to appear before Kangaroo Kommissions (expect the administration to unsuccessfully argue that a Kangaroo Kommission arraignment precludes a Habeas Corpus petition). There will be no election year show Kangaroo Kommissions, as the administration had planned—it will be all Habeas |  |
Web:
- UPDATED 06/13/2008 Mukasey: Detainee ruling won't stop terror trials. The Kangaroo Kommissions are not directly terminated by Boumediene v Bush, and may proceed—they just might not have
any bodyanybody before them. - Mukasey: Guantanamo military trials to proceed
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1. One court will hear all Habeas Corpus petitions from all detainees—these proceeding will be much different than the meaningless Kangaroo Kombat Status Reviews (CSRT) the administration called process and justice, to our everlasting shame.
- Updated 07/08/2008
Judge Thomas F. Hogan has been assigned to hear Guantanamo detainee petitions—he rejected the administration's attempts to delay, incredulously telling them to make detainee petitions a top priority.
As if to emphasize the point the judge told the administration "The time has come to move these [petitions] forward,".
Judge Hogan
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