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Regardless of the challenges, the Administration needs to continue to support the State Department's aggressive efforts to make sure that the small fish at Guantánamo move on. The logic that gave rise to the Administration's broad powers of detention, interrogation and surveillance is the logic of the worst-case scenario, of terrorist masterminds and ticking time bombs. It's consistent with that logic that a place like Guantánamo be reserved for only the most dangerous terrorists...
More than 400 habeas corpus cases, in which Guantánamo petitioners are challenging the legality of their detention, are percolating around the country. Lawyers who filed some of those petitions tell TIME that they anticipate that the Supreme Court ruling will open a path for those cases to head up the chain of appeals. The Administration argues that the courts have no jurisdiction, and Congress barred judges from ruling on almost all future habeas appeals from Gitmo by passing the Detainee Treatment Act last December...
...Guantánamo as a fount of intelligence may already be ending, however. There is only so much intel you can glean from a man who has been interrogated for four years. The base commander, Navy Rear Admiral Harry Harris Jr., told TIME shortly before the Hamdan decision that 75% of detainees held at Gitmo no longer face regular questioning, and some haven't faced it in six months or longer. So, as with many of the other issues raised by the Hamdan case, perhaps the interrogation debate should move away from Gitmo and focus on other places around the world...
...Guantánamo has long since ceased being just a detention center for terrorism suspects. It's a symbol, and it shapes how the world views America and how Americans view themselves. While all three branches of government need to work in concert to balance the strategic and legal imperatives involved in fighting terrorism, the White House can take a huge step toward removing the discomfort about Gitmo by opening the operation to the outside world. A few journalists have been granted access to the facility following the coordinated suicides of three inmates last month, but camera crews and reporters...
...change of thinking. I vowed to the American people I would do everything I could to defend our people, and will." The retort was part of the confident, nondefensive approach Bush took during 44 hours in Vienna and Budapest. "Let me talk about Guantánamo," he said early in one meeting, not waiting for his hosts to bring up the unpleasant subject of the military detention center. (It's a subject that, because of the Supreme Court ruling, is still likely to be a staple of the questions at his European press conferences this week.) The massive demonstrations that...