News from Guantanamo:

Hazaifa Parhat is being held by the U.S. military at the Guantanamo Bay Navy base in Cuba. In its ruling, the court ordered that Parhat be released or transferred, or that a hearing be held quickly to determine whether he is being held properly.

The judges criticized the government for offering unsubstantiated evidence, and referred to Carroll’s poem,”The Hunting of the Snark,” in which the line is uttered by a pompous character called the Bellman.

“The government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at least three different documents,” wrote Judge Merrick Garland. “We are not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make the allegation true. In fact we have no basis for concluding that there are independent sources for the documents’ thrice-made assertions.”

And some smartarse wingnuts still feel proud of what happened to David Hicks. Presumably they cling to the quaint notion that if he had refused the plea bargain and allowed this interminable bullshit to wind its way through the US courts for another five or 19 years, that would have been ‘justice’.

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