Giok: By saying that maybe I had read the newspaper wrong, I was giving you an opportunity to double-check and self-correct your assertion, but you didn't take me up on it. Gitmo (and similar)detainees have had a right to federal judicial review of their alleged enemy combatant status since June 23, 2004, by way of a Supreme Court decision against the Bush administration. Bush doesn't have as much power as Stalin had.

(But the current crop of CIA charter flights and our net of prisons, detention centers and "out-sourced" torture sites is a national shame. If you want to get back to the real issues, you have to get back to the real issues!)