Administration appeals Bagram rights ruling

NY Times:

The Obama administration said Friday that it would appeal a district court ruling that granted some military prisoners in Afghanistan the right to file lawsuits seeking their release. The decision signaled that the administration was not backing down in its effort to maintain the power to imprison terrorism suspects for extended periods without judicial oversight.

In a court filing, the Justice Department also asked District Judge John D. Bates not to proceed with the habeas-corpus cases of three detainees at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Judge Bates ruled last week that the three — each of whom says he was seized outside of Afghanistan — could challenge their detention in court.

Tina Foster, the executive director of the International Justice Network, which is representing the detainees, condemned the decision in a statement.

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The international Justice Network appears to be an al Qaeda useful idiots organization. It is another one sided group who favor rights for terrorist, but not for their victims. It also is taking a lawfare approach to a war that is being waged against us by people who only sense of justice is imposing their weird religious beliefs on the world. These detainees need to be held until the end of the conflict. It is their compatriots that are causing their indefinite detention.

It is encouraging to see that the Obama administration is more practical about these issues their candidate Obama was.

There is more on the appeal at the Washington Post. Both papers appear to be devoting less copy to this appeal than they would to one by the Bush administration. My speculation is that they don't have the angle of a political defeat for Bush and are left to look at it in the context of how it effects US national security. What a dilemma.