The Obama Justice Department urged the court not to hear the appeal, claiming the lower court got it right when it determined, among other things, that Guantanamo detainees were not "persons" for purposes of American law and that "torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military's detention of suspected enemy combatants."

This is a complicated legal matter that I haven't had time to parse through, but that passage alone ought to be enough to anger the majority of the population of the US, from McCain leftward. Why isn't the mainstream press reporting on this?

The Obama administration has picked the worst possible case for its first torture trial. - By Dahlia Lithwick - Slate Magazine