Decius wrote:
] ] The court refused to endorse a central claim of the White
] ] House since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001: that
] ] the government has authority to seize and detain terror
] ] suspects or their protectors and indefinitely deny access
] ] to courts or lawyers while interrogating them.
]
] This is one of the most important things going on around
] you right now. Read these decisions.

The decisions themselves are news.

To reuse your phrase, this AP article is very spinny. It's ready-made for the tabloid dailies.

"High Court slams Bush"
"legal limbo"
"a forceful denunciation"
"The Bush administration had argued that US courts had no business second-guessing detentions of foreigners held on foreign soil."
"US forces routed the Taliban"
"Hamdi was shipped" (as if by FedEx)

A quote unrelated to the spin: "The Bush administration says he was fighting with a Taliban unit and carrying a gun."

Since when is it an international crime to carry a gun? Don't we have a Second Amendment?