>>>>>A terrible ruling. Since when do non-citizens get the protection of the US Constitution?
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>>>>Why is this terrible? So now we can have real trials with real evidence? There's a problem with that?
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>>>>Doug
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>>>Non citizens, don't rate the protection of the US Constitution.
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>>Really. So when people from other countries come to visit the US, they're not entitled to due process?
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>>Tamar
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>Sure they have due process. The Guantanimo prisoners are not on US soil. They are on Cuban soil, which happens to be controlled by the US. The government's argument has been that they are not in the US. If they were here, they would have a right to due process and the US law enforcement agencies would be dealing with them, not the military, which is why they have not been brought here.

First of all, I was responding to your comment above that "non citizens don't rate the protection of the US Constitution." Now you agree that they do, if they're in the US. Good.

Now we can talk about the prisoners at Guantanamo. The first question is whether US military bases outside the US are "US soil." I don't know the answer to that, but it seems important.

Tamar