No, President Barack Obama ain’t thinking of Georgia, he’s thinking of Gitmo East, otherwise known as Bagram Air Base, as his administration has officially announced it will appeal a federal district court ruling allowing prisoners at Bagram to sue for habeas corpus rights. The Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram.
Coming on top of Glenn Greenwald’s great roundup of Obama imitating Bush on the issue of state secrets, this isn’t surprising, while it’s still certainly disgusting.
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