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Obama: No rights for Bagram prisoners; Sides with Bush, says detainees can't challenge detention in U.S. courts
Posted by: Justin_ ()
Date: May 22, 2009 12:51PM

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.

In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.

"The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we'd hoped," said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. "We all expected better."

Full article here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29308012/

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