"As aliens detained by the military outside the sovereign territory of the United States and lacking a sufficient connection to this country, petitioners have no cognizable constitutional rights," the lawyers said in court papers.
Thus spake government lawyers in response to a Supreme Court ruling that the Guantanamo captives have some rights.
We just have to hope that none of us get captured in THEIR countries. What ever happened to the moral highground? I liked living there....
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