Another absurd tale from down in the rabbit hole. In the first court
review of the Bush Administration's secret evidence for holding a detainee at
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, it was revealed that the government claimed
the accusations presented in its secret documents should be considered
truth — not because there were hard facts backing them up — but
because the accusations were repeated in multiple government
documents.


Thankfully the federal appeals court has unanimously ruled that the
claims supporting Huzaifa Parhat's six-year detention in Guantanamo
were “bare and unverifiable.” The absurdity of the Bush Administration's
argument was not lost on the court. Reports the New York Times: “The
court compared [the government's argument] 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.”

This is just another example of the Bush Administration tossing aside objective
fact in order to create a world where they make their own rules; it's
just another stop on our country's journey from Human Rights Watchdog
to Human Rights Abuser. And it just goes to show how the mere
existence of Guantanamo flies in the face of the Constitution. The
Bush Administration has lost a string of Guantanamo Bay court decisions. But
it's simply not enough to try to counteract these injustices as they
happen; we need to start at the source. We need to close Guantanamo
Bay Detention Center and do what we can to reverse this smear on the
human rights history of the United States. You can start by signing
our Close Guantanamo Petition and telling your friends.