The first hearing on the government’s reasons behind holding six enemy combatants in Guantanamo began yesterday, only to be closed to the public — and the detainees themselves — after a judge ruled that the evidence was classified. The case is the first to come to trial after the Supreme Court’s June decision that gave detainees habeas corpus rights. In 2005, the judge overseeing the trial, Bush-appointee Richard Leon, said enemy combatants had no habeas corpus rights. (New York Times)
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