Chalk 1 Up For The Right Thing

I've said for a long time that the BushCo treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay is wrong - morally and ethically, and the so-called "tribunals" that were to be used as substitutes for legal trials were at best a sad imitation of their predecessors.

It seems that the US Supreme Court at least agreed somewhat with that by blocking the BushCo administration's desire to start their kangaroo court processes up.

They also argued that the government's charge of conspiracy against Hamdan is not allowed under international standards of law for prisoners of war, and that earlier federal courts had rejected that standard as well, since it was too broadly defined.

As I've argued before, the low road approach of ignoring international standards (as minimalist as they might be) is not acceptable, either.