{"id":1301,"date":"2009-02-21T08:24:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2009-02-21T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:25:29","slug":"sad-saturday-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2009\/02\/21\/sad-saturday-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"Sad Saturday Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/02\/20\/obama-backs-bush-on-bagra_n_168766.html\">does everybody find this as sad and disappointing as I do<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<p>In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their detention. The filing shocked human rights attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hope we all had in President Obama to lead us on a different path has not turned out as we&#8217;d hoped,&#8221; said Tina Monshipour Foster, a human rights attorney representing a detainee at the Bagram Airfield. &#8220;We all expected better.&#8221;<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n&#8220;They&#8217;ve now embraced the Bush policy that you can create prisons outside the law,&#8221; said Jonathan Hafetz, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who has represented several detainees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well.  I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a rationalization for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or does everybody find this as sad and disappointing as I do? The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional rights. In a two-sentence court filing, the Justice Department said it agreed that detainees at Bagram Airfield cannot use U.S. courts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}