Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case


	Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case

ratilfar

7-1-2008 1:54 PM

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courts, law, detainees, justice, war, war on terror, gitmo

ratilfar says:

This is what the Republicans feared, that their flimsy reasoning would be blown out of the water!

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