Scalia claims detainees have no rights

[mburbank]

It's my understanding we have people from the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war and people of interest we hve acquired through undisclosed means in undisclosed places. I could be wrong.

We admit that we have had both afghans and pakistanis noncombatants who were basically sold to us under false pretenses for the bounty on combatants, so it stands to reason we still have people who fit that category. There's a case where one inmate wanted to use paperwork from the legal system of his own country and was refused because of the 'undue burden'. A lawyer trying to represent him (who presumably this guy doesn't even know he has) got the documents, and they still wouldn't look at them, so he put them on line and they still haven't looked at them. We've got five Chinese guys there who we admit are innocent, but the Chinese won't take them back so they are STILL at Gitmo. One hopes they are recieveing better treatment, but there's no way to know.

I don't see how this kind of thing is good for the US.