Before you lecture folks about the Constitution, I recommend you actually read the document. No where in it does it call for any specific rights for enemy combatants.

Separately, when you state: "And also without doubt is the fact that Islamic extremists represent a tiny handful of stateless and weapons-less international criminals." You are actually expressing the Clinton mindset that led to 9/11. Aw their small, their harmless . . . So they bombed an embassy or two. So they bombed the USS Cole. So, they bombed the World Trade Center in a failed attempt to bring it down. We showed them we were not going to respond seriously. That led them to plan a bigger attack.

The symptoms from catching the virus reveal themselves in a willingness to throw, or temporarily set aside, our Constitutional framework. Those who catch this virus have a difficult time shaking it.

The Islamic extremist issue, Bin Laden's 9-11 attack….are serious matters, without doubt. And also without doubt is the fact that Islamic extremists represent a tiny handful of stateless and weapons-less international criminals.

If the Court would have gone the other way….then this tiny handful of extremists, led by Osama, would have won another victory over American freedoms.

Those who advocate for a dismantling of our American Heritage of Constitutional law and order….sorry….are, knowingly or unknowingly, doing Osama's bidding.

Calm down and gain some perspective.

McCain, 2003:
"A serious process must be established in the very near term either to formally treat and process the detainees as war criminals or to return them to their countries for appropriate judicial action."

McCain, 2003:
"They may not have any rights under the Geneva Conventions as far as I’m concerned, but they have rights under various human rights declarations. And one of them is the right not to be detained indefinitely."

I know its a hard concept for you people to understand, but this is proof that your hero McCain is HYPOCRITE.

and a total fraud.

What all you fearmonger lunatics don't get is that things like our indefinite detention with no evidence and torture is what grows hatred of America. We are loved for our rule of law and you people seek to bastardize that! And we cannot spread our democracy when we have no rule of law!

We should not hold people without evidence. It is fundamental to any system of justice. And if we want to hold ourselves out to be the beacons of justice and democracy (which we usually are), we can't be hypocrites.

So this ruling restores a little dignity to our system. Might be a small step to some, and perhaps too late to change the tides of anti-Americanism to many, but it is right.

And as a side note to the idiot fearmongers: this is f–king America. We are a great, strong nation. We can protect ourselves from the say 50 guys we should probably release from Gitmo. Calm the f down and get some perspective. And if I am wrong and these guys destroy us, then I guess our nation is a weak pathetic nation and can't figure out how to defend itself after 9/11. Well, I feel we are better than that, so I will not live through the fear you guys do.

Civilized nations accept habeas corpus for all people. It seems fundamental to all who believe in equal justice.

Holding prisoners indefinitely without charging them with specific crimes may have been the right call during a time of declared war. Holding prisoners indefinitely without habeas rights during an international criminal hunt for extremists, which may never end, is not acceptable, and that's why the five Justices made the right call here.

By the way…this is the third time the Supreme Court has thrown a collar on Bush's extra-Constitutional leanings.
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Tim Russert was never my favorite….but I'm sure he was a good family man who will be sorely missed by those who loved him. A tragic death.