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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19879)12/20/2003 4:05:24 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (1) of 81187
 
Raymond > here's the most astonishing catch of my morning's trawl

And something nice for the afternoon as well:

nytimes.com

>>>The broad presidential powers invoked by the Bush administration after Sept. 11, 2001, to detain suspected terrorists outside the civilian court system is now being challenged by the federal courts, the very branch of the government the White House hoped to circumvent.

The two separate appellate court rulings on Thursday swept away crucial parts of the administration's legal strategy to handle terrorist suspects outside the criminal justice system and incarcerate them indefinitely without access to lawyers or to the evidence against them.

In the case in San Francisco, a 2-to-1 panel said on Thursday that the detention of 660 noncitizens at Guantánamo Bay without the protection of the American legal system was unconstitutional and a violation of international law.<<<
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