After SC Ruling, More Misleading About a Far-Left Bush Enemy
Posted by: Clay Waters
6/30/2006 1:03:03 PM
Court reporter Linda Greenhouse ends her busy week with Friday's lead story, "Justices, 5-3, Broadly Reject Plan To Try Detainees."
"The Supreme Court on Thursday repudiated the Bush administration's plan to put Guantánamo detainees on trial before military commissions, ruling broadly that the commissions were unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law."
After claiming the ruling "shredded each of the administration's arguments," Greenhouse's first source for comment is a far-left group, though you wouldn't know it from her benign characterization:
"The decision was such a sweeping and categorical defeat for the administration that it left human rights lawyers who have pressed this and other cases on behalf of Guantánamo detainees almost speechless with surprise and delight, using words like "fantastic," "amazing" and "remarkable." Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a public interest law firm in New York that represents hundreds of detainees, said, 'It doesn't get any better.'"
TimesWatch has previously pointed out how the Times consistently mis-characterizes CCR as a benign civil rights group or public interest group, hiding its radical past and statements like this from a Ratner press release last December: "The Bush administration has moved us from a government responsible and accountable to the people to one that dictates to the people. Every American should be in political rebellion against the criminals now running this country."
Only then does Greenhouse get to what President Bush had to say in response to the ruling.
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