Shell Games

George Bush Hid Guantanamo Prisoners from Right to Lawyers

Moved them before Supreme Court decision.

More CIA smoke and mirrors: According to the Associated Press, President Bush brought four of the most highly wanted alleged al Qaeda terrorists to Guantanamo Bay years earlier than reported, in 2003—and then quickly sent them back overseas to CIA black sites when his administration began to fear that the Supreme Court would give them access to lawyers. Overseas, the men were subject to the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques for two more years; had they stayed at Gitmo, the court would have given them access to lawyers just three months later. "There was obviously a fear that everything that had been done to them might come out," says one of the alleged terrorist’s lawyers. Another law professor who has represented detainees says, "This was all just a shell game to hide detainees from the courts.”