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DE RUEHSO #0729 1841052
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O 031052Z JUL 06
FM AMCONSUL SAO PAULO
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5351
INFO RHEHNSC/NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL WASHDC IMMEDIATE
RUEHBR/AMEMBASSY BRASILIA PRIORITY 6440
RUEHRI/AMCONSUL RIO DE JANEIRO PRIORITY 7235
RUCPDOC/USDOC WASHDC 2508
UNCLAS SAO PAULO 000729
SIPDIS
SIPDIS
STATE INR/R/MR; IIP/R/MR; WHA/PD
DEPT PASS USTR
USDOC 4322/MAC/OLAC/JAFEE
E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: KMDR OPRC OIIP ETRD BR
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: GWOT: GUANTANAMO, SUPREME COURT; SAO PAULO
"Third Defeat"
Liberal, largest national circulation daily Folha de S. Paulo (7/3)
editorialized: "In a victory for the rule of Law and democracy, the
US Supreme Court declared illegal the military courts created by
President George W. Bush to judge suspects of terrorism in
Guantanamo.... It is the third consecutive defeat the Bush
administration has suffered on this issue in the Supreme Court,
which had already determined that those arrested [in Guantanamo]
have the right to be heard in US courts and cannot be indefinitely
kept imprisoned without formal accusation.... The Supreme Court's
decisions regarding the prisoners have once again proved the vigor
of democracy in the US, a regime that can survive ignominies such as
the September 11 attacks and Bush's excesses."
McMullen