The Amnesty International Report DID NOT USE THE WORD GULAG. What we pasted into the first post on this thread was taken from the white house transcript of the press conference. IT WAS THE WHITE HOUSE WHICH PUT THE PHRASE "A NEW GULAG" IN QUOTES, thereby giving the impression that it was a quote from the AI report. Yet another lie.

And, Heric, your absolutely right that "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." However, it's been nearly a year and not a single prisoner has been allowed to exercise this option due to stalling on the part of the Bush administration.

Bev and Jerry