There is a significant WOT Supreme Court hearing coming up.
Boumediene is an Algerian-born citizen of Bosnia with a Bosnian wife. He and five others were seized by police there in violation of Bosnian law on January 17, 2002, and handed over to the U.S. military. The six had previously been arrested on charges of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo, but Bosnia's Supreme Court had ordered them released for lack of evidence just hours before their abduction.
The government has provided no evidence to the public, to any court, or to Boumediene that he has ever supported terrorism in any way. It has not allowed his volunteer lawyers to see the classified evidence against him, to call witnesses in his defense, or to appear at the cursory military hearing in which a three-officer, judge-free "combatant status review tribunal" -- which was free to consider evidence obtained by torture -- found him to be an enemy combatant. And the administration claims that it can hold Boumediene for as long as it wants no matter what the outcome of the cursory review of the tribunal decision by a federal Appeals Court in Washington provided for by a 2006 law.
