Court rejects Bush request
In what amounts to a sharp rebuke of the Bush administration, a U.S. appeals court has rejected a request to transfer Jose Padilla, the accused terrorist who has been held for three years as an "enemy combatant," from military custody to face charges in a civilian court, the International Herald Tribune reported from Washington.
Last month, the panel issued a brief order suggesting it might withdraw an earlier opinion that gave Bush sweeping powers to detain Padilla, an American, indefinitely without trial. But the administration then shifted course and said it would no longer hold Padilla as an enemy combatant but try him on criminal charges in a civilian court.
On Wednesday, the appeals panel said that the Justice Department's effort to transfer Padilla gave the appearance that the government was trying to manipulate the court system to prevent the Supreme Court from reviewing the case.
The original allegation that Padilla was part of a bomb plot was not mentioned in a Justice Department indictment on Nov. 22, which said only that Padilla was part of a terror cell that supported violent acts overseas.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/12/22/news/policy.phpslick, slick, slick. What kind of free nation holds one of its citizens indefinitely without trial? What type of free nation manipulates its own courts tyring to hold one of ita citizens indefinitely without trial, satisfied, from their self-appointed perch as judge, jury, and executioner, that their verdict is correct and incorruptable? sick, sick, sick.
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