Thompson on the 'Boumediene' Decision

Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:31:20 am PDT

Fred Thompson has an excellent piece posted at PJ Media, on the implications of Boumediene: A Supremely Problematic Court Decision.

As I pointed out last week, and as legal scholar John Yoo did earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, the “Boumediene Five” have done our nation and our Constitution no great service. But beyond the rhetoric, we really need to understand the real world impact of this ruling on the war we are waging against our enemies.

In Boumediene v Bush, besides, for the first time in history conferring habeas corpus rights on alien enemies detained abroad by our military during a war, the Court struck down as inadequate what Chief Justice John Roberts called “the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded enemy combatants.”