John Dean: Senators Kyl and Graham's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld Scam - The Deceptive Amicus Brief They Filed in the Guantanamo Detainee Case
The Bush/Cheney Administration has been doing everything possible to keep its treatment of purported terrorist detainees out of the federal courts, particularly the Supreme Court. To assist the Administration, Republican Senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jon Kyl of Arizona engaged in a blatant scam that was revealed during the briefing of Hamdan.
Senators Graham and Kyl not only misled their Senate colleagues, but also shamed their high offices by trying to deliberately mislead the U.S. Supreme Court. Their effort failed. I have not seen so blatant a ploy, or abuse of power, since Nixon's reign.
Tags: Supreme Court, GitMo, crooks, liars, Senators
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