From Ace: origin from nationalreview
FACT: Prisoners detained years longer due to Democrat Lawyers, who worked to change ruling to try prisoners in civilian court VS Military court...
McCarthy:
Democrat lawyers held up Guantanamo closure...
As they sought the (eventual) 2008, the Supreme Court ruling:
Boumediene v. Bush, which holds that the detainees had a constitutional right to challenge their detention in civilian federal courts...
McCarthy states:
"Bush aggressively defended the commissions system and tried to push the cases forward, but was stopped from doing so by the courts--at the urging of left-wing lawyers who volunteered their services to the enemy. The commission system was invalidated in 2006.
Earlier Dates:
Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, which attempted to allow the military commissions to go forward and to divest the civilian courts of jurisdiction to interfere.Democrats are not being honest with the American people, because they tied the hands of Bush, and later blamed him for not acting... A repeat theme, in a host of events of history... Including the events that brought about the war:
In 2006... Congress reacted to Hamdan by passing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, approving the commissions and again attempting to allow them to go forward.
In 2008... Ruling of challenge in civilian federal courts...
VIDEO: Must View Democrats and 1998 WMD.
