From a WaPo op-ed:

Adel is innocent. I don't mean he claims to be. I mean the military says so. It held a secret tribunal and ruled that he is not al Qaeda, not Taliban, not a terrorist. The whole thing was a mistake: The Pentagon paid $5,000 to a bounty hunter, and it got taken.

The military people reached this conclusion, and they wrote it down on a memo, and then they classified the memo and Adel went from the hearing room back to his prison cell. He is a prisoner today, eight months later.

Sickening.

Habeas review matters...and it's in the Constitution itself.  (Not just the Bill of Rights; it's the only civil liberty to make it into the Constitution before it was amended.  Try Article I, Section 9.)  Where be your "strict constructionists" now?

Evidently they weren't around last week when the Senate, after one measly hour of "debate", voted to overturn habeas corpus protections for detainees at Gitmo.  I wonder if the Senators that voted for the Graham Amendment will do a 180 when it comes to the Alito confirmation...I mean, you believe in the actual words the framers wrote, or you don't.

I should mention that the Constitution-trashing Senators that voted for this amendment include five Democrats, who really should know better:  Lieberman (CT), Landrieu (LA), Nelson (NE), Conrad (ND), and Wyden (OR).  I hope you live in their district, and will remember this next time they come up for election.

I should also mention that the above vote was nullified by the Graham/Levin amendment, passed Tuesday, which will add, in some cases, the right to file a habeas petition to a federal appeals court.  But the Graham/Levin Amendment still has major problems.

We haven't heard the last of this.