The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies
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"The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies
By John Andrews and Barry Grey
3 January 2006
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An extraordinary dispute has erupted between the Bush administration and a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over the status of Jose Padilla, the US citizen who has spent 42 months in a Navy brig after being arrested in Chicago and placed in military detention as an “enemy combatant.”
Late last November, the Justice Department reversed itself and requested that the court agree to remove Padilla from military control so that he could be tried on criminal charges in Florida. The Bush administration was stunned when the Fourth Circuit panel first demanded that it furnish an explanation for its about-face on Padilla’s military detention, and then ruled against the Justice Department’s request.
The Fourth Circuit’s action was all the more unexpected since the same three-judge panel, headed by right-wing Republican J. Michael Luttig, had handed Bush a legal victory the previous September, upholding his right to arrest and indefinitely detain Padilla as an enemy combatant. (See “Court upholds power of White House to jail citizens as ‘enemy"
"The Bush administration and the Padilla case: White House caught in its own lies
By John Andrews and Barry Grey
3 January 2006
Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author
An extraordinary dispute has erupted between the Bush administration and a three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals over the status of Jose Padilla, the US citizen who has spent 42 months in a Navy brig after being arrested in Chicago and placed in military detention as an “enemy combatant.”
Late last November, the Justice Department reversed itself and requested that the court agree to remove Padilla from military control so that he could be tried on criminal charges in Florida. The Bush administration was stunned when the Fourth Circuit panel first demanded that it furnish an explanation for its about-face on Padilla’s military detention, and then ruled against the Justice Department’s request.
The Fourth Circuit’s action was all the more unexpected since the same three-judge panel, headed by right-wing Republican J. Michael Luttig, had handed Bush a legal victory the previous September, upholding his right to arrest and indefinitely detain Padilla as an enemy combatant. (See “Court upholds power of White House to jail citizens as ‘enemy"
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