Larisa Alexandrovna - Once again, the courts prove to be the last wall defending the Constitution and the most sacred of democratic principles: habeas corpus:

"In a stinging rejection of one of the Bush administration’s central assertions about the scope of executive authority to combat terrorism, a federal appeals court ordered the Pentagon to release a man being held as an enemy combatant.

“To sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians," Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote, “even if the President calls them ‘enemy combatants,’ would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution — and the country.”"

It has had disastrous consequences already. I might add the Alberto Gonzales helped to "legalize" these activities along with John Yoo, who himself violated his role in the Office of Legal Council at DOJ, bypassed the Attorney General (then Ashcroft) and created legal justification for much of the illegality we now see being exposed. Yet despite his willingness to subvert the Constitution, violate his oath of office, likely violate the law, Yoo was given a Professorship at the prestigious Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California - Berkley. Why? Perhaps we should contact the university and ask?

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