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Travus T. Hipp - Cabale News Service[October 22 2008] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: What Part Of 'GET OUT' Doesn't The West Understand... And What Do You Suppose Would Happen If 'They' 'Cancelled The Wars'? - The Karzai Government Attempts To Side-Step Nato And The 'Coalition Of The Coerced' Even As Iraq Sits On The 'SOFA' (October 22, 2008)

In The News: "Butterfly Ballot" redux - Some of the electronic voting machines being used around the country have column/row misalignment problems on their screens... (favoring guess which party...) and still more of the machines have easy user access to a 30 second chip replacement even as there are unparalleled numbers of early voters around the US.

Five more Guantanamo detainees have had ALL CHARGES DROPPED but they are going to be kept imprisoned anyway. More.

An example of jurisprudence in re Gitmo, from Bill Fisher at The World According To Bill Fisher:

"Seventeen Chinese Muslims who have been imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay for seven years will now have to wait still longer to discover whether a U.S. appeals court will confirm or reverse a judge’s earlier decision that they be immediately released into the United States.

Yesterday, a split federal appeals court refused to allow the immediate release into the U.S. of the 17, which means they will remain in prison for at least several more weeks.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit agreed with the Bush administration’s argument that the Muslims' release should be halted while the government prepares its full appeal. The court will hear oral arguments on Nov. 24.

Meanwhile, lawyers for the detainees were said to be considering other options. It has been reported that an appeal directly to the Supreme Court might be a possibility, since that court ruled last June that foreign detainees at Guantanamo have the right to appeal to federal judges to challenge their imprisonment.

Two appointees of the first President Bush voted to halt the detainees' immediate release. They are Judges Karen Henderson and A. Raymond Randolph.

But in an outspoken dissent, Judge Judith W. Rogers argued that the detainees should be freed. She noted that the Bush administration had acknowledged the Uighurs were no longer considered enemy combatants even as it continued to argue the detainees were a national security risk based on little more than the fact they had admitted to receiving weapons training in Afghanistan.

"The fact that petitioners received firearms training cannot alone show they are dangerous, unless millions of United States resident citizens who have received firearms training are to be deemed dangerous as well," Rogers wrote. "And, in any event, the district court found there is no evidence petitioners harbor hostility toward the United States."

She added that the government's appeal was problematic "given both the length of time that petitioners have been denied their liberty" and the years the government has already had up to now — with little success — to justify the Uighurs' continued imprisonment.

Judge Rogers was appointed by President Clinton.

The appeals court's move came after U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina on October 10 ruled that the government should free the detainees immediately and ordered them brought physically to his court. Urbina said it would be wrong for the Bush administration to continue holding the Uighurs since they are no longer considered enemy combatants." In Full

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