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The Hunting of the Snark
Evidence Faulted in Detainee Case
William Glaberson, HuffPost
In the first case to review the government’s secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo 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 documents.
The court compared that to the absurd declaration of a character in the Lewis Carroll poem “The Hunting of the Snarkâ€: “I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true.â€
Gitmo ‘justice’ is common in Fascist and Communist countries. It is typical in the Middle East including Israel.
