WOULDN'T IT HAVE SAVED A LOT OF TIME...:

Obama backs Bush on terror prisoners (JOSH GERSTEIN, 2/20/09, Politico)

The Justice Department told a federal court Friday that it shouldn’t consider legal challenges filed by prisoners being held in Afghanistan by the U.S. military — another example of the Obama administration hewing to one of President Bush’s war-on-terror stances.

In a short legal filing, Justice Department lawyers said they planned to maintain the Bush administration’s claim that the roughly 600 prisoners held in Afghaninstan have no right to contest their detention in the courts. “The Government adheres to its previously articulated position,” the attorneys said.

...if the UR had just asked W to be his WoT Czar?

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Posted by Orrin Judd at February 20, 2009 10:35 PM