Congressional Hearings on Guantanamo Set

June 30, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's rebuff of the Bush administration's Guantanamo military tribunals knocks the issue into the halls of Congress, where GOP leaders are already trying to figure out how to give the president the options he wants for dealing with suspected terror detainees.

That way forward could be long and difficult. Congress will negotiate a highly technical legal road -- one fraught with political implications in an election year -- under the scrutiny of the international community that has condemned the continued use of the Guantanamo prison.

The ruling does little to clear up the immediate future of the 450 prisoners inside the razor wire at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, since most have never been charged with crimes and may never go to trial.

Within hours of the high court's ruling that the military tribunals were illegal under U.S. and international law, President Bush said he would work with Congress to fix the problem. Still, Bush vowed that the result "won't cause killers to be put out on the street."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-guantanamo-whats-next,0,4384542.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

I'm sure Frist and the other BushCo apologists are are working very hard to try to figure out a way to legalize Bush's crimes.

And pray to his masters "The Bush Criminals"

they want to appear "tuff on terra".

Geneva Convention. Shouldn't the World Court go after him immediately? Just wishful thinking.

no-one has actually been tried by these tribunals. the question was whether they are legal to begin with. the decision apparently says that Bush cannot do this WITHOUT Congressional authorization.