Lefty Blog Forgets to Fact Check on Attack Of Scalia
Posted on June 22, 2008
Gateway Pundit reports that lefty blog Think Progress came out with a post attacking Scalia titled: “Report: Scalia’s Claim That Released Gitmo Prisoners Have Killed Americans Is An ‘Urban Legend’”
A new report from the Seton Hall University School of Law explodes the myth that some 30 detainees released from Guantanamo Bay prison have “returned to the battlefield” against American forces.
This conservative urban legend was recently parroted by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent from the Court’s Boumediene decision. Scalia wrote that granting habeas corpus rights to Gitmo detainees “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed,” and supported this view by asserting that “at least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.”
This would be quite a scoop if it were true, however….Former Gitmo detainee Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi recently blew himself up in Iraq.
Monhammed Nayim Farouq from Afghanistan, is named on a “most wanted” poster issued by the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was released in July 2003 he quickly renewed his association with Taliban and al-Qaida members and has since become re-involved in anti-Coalition militant activity.
And, of course, there are the other terrorists who after leaving Club Gitmo went out and attacked the Russian pipeline, the Russian city of Nalchik, Pakistani forces, Morocco, etc.
Awesome catch Gateway Pundit…keep trying Think Progress.
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Scalia ignored precedent (Rasul) and concentrated on wetting his pants over Terrorism. I thought you guys liked Strict Constructionists. Help me out here, how was this dissent of his written by a Conservative?
(If you’re ready to prattle about terrorism, re-read the second sentence over and over until the urge goes away. Read the actual decision if you need to. It’s 134 pages, yes, but it is worth the read).