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Obama backs Bush: No rights for Bagram prisoners
By NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO
WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys."The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."
TG: But I thought Obama was gonna be against the war on terror and reverse all Bush's policies? This is one he should reverse. Just because someone is not American doesn't mean he shouldn't have any rights. He should still actually have to be guilty before he's convicted. If someone is a terrorist, surely a court of Americans would convict him, so what's the need to deprive him of basic rights? Rights are to protect the innocent.
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