GTMO Inmates Lose All Rights

This disgusts me; my government offends and defiles my name every time it sneaks past policies Americans would otherwise oppose. Those who passed this have neither shame nor humanity:

The Observer | International | Guantanamo inmates to lose all rights: "Human rights campaigners are calling it the 'November surprise' - a last-minute amendment smuggled into a Pentagon finance bill in the US Senate last Thursday.

Its effects are likely to be devastating: the permanent removal of almost all legal rights from 'war on terror' detainees at Guantanamo Bay and every other similar US facility on foreign or American soil.

'What the British law lord Lord Steyn once called a legal black hole had begun to be filled in,' said the British lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, speaking from Guantanamo, where he represents more than 40 detainees. 'It looks as if it is back, and deeper than before.'"