By Andrew Walden
FrontPageMagazine.com
In response to the June 29 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Osama bin-Laden’s bodyguard Salim Ahmed Hamdan, President Bush announced Wednesday he is sending Congress a proposal to organize military tribunals to hear the case against 14 key al-Qaeda plotters and dozens of the other terrorists currently held by the U.S. The 14 plotters, mostly the type who sit back and order others to their in attacks, were previously held by the CIA in secret locations.
The secret facilities were revealed by the Washington Post in late 2005 as successful Iraqi elections were gathering steam. European Union bureaucrats have since been conducting investigations to determine the locations of these facilities and render them useless. The 14 detainees—the entire contents of the so-called secret prisons—are being transferred to Guantanamo Bay Naval Station where the will be subject to U.S. military proceedings.
In spite of a four-and-a-half-year propaganda effort designed to convince Americans to be concerned with the rights of our enemies, the best that the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Left could come up with was this ruling required the administration to seek approval from Congress in establishing military tribunals necessary to mete out justice.
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