William Rivers Pitt | A Moment of Pause

"A rolling sense of awe has enveloped the mainstream news media since yesterday's Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo," writes William Rivers Pitt. "The specifics of the decision are part of the discussion, to be sure, but the sense of amazement has a more basic root. After all this time, after a seemingly endless series of over-reaching power grabs by the Bush administration, someone with a big enough stick finally got in the way and said 'No.'"

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Rosa Brooks Did Bush Commit War Crimes?

Did Bush Commit War Crimes?Rosa Brooks points out, "The Supreme Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both US military law and the Geneva Convention. But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with al-Qaeda - a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act."

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