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| July 1, 2008
| Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case
| By WILLIAM GLABERSON
|
| In the first case to review the government's secret
| evidence for holding a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a
| federal appeals court found that accusations against a
| Muslim from western China held for more than six years were
| based on bare and unverifiable claims. The unclassified
| parts of the decision were released on Monday.
|
| With some derision for the Bush administration's arguments,
| a three-judge panel said the government contended that its
| accusations against the detainee should be accepted as true
| because they had been repeated in at least three secret
| do***ents.
|
| The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a
| character in the Lewis Carroll poem "The Hunting of the
| Snark": "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times
| is true."
|
| "This comes perilously close to suggesting that whatever
| the government says must be treated as true," said the
| panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
| Circuit.
| ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/01/wa****ngton/01gitmo.html>
--bks
