Supreme Court Declines To Hear Guantanamo Appeals
Source: National Public Radio
by Nina Totenberg and Ali Frick
June 11, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take a second look at how its 2008 decision on the rights of detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is being carried out.
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In the first two years, detainees won relief in 19 out of 34 cases heard by the trial courts, according to a Seaton Hall study. But in 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit began overturning those decisions, eventually declaring that even the government's second- and third-hand hearsay evidence should be presumed accurate unless there was clear contrary evidence.
The appeals court eventually overturned every single favorable decision that the trial courts had handed down, opening itself to criticism that it had rendered the Supreme Court's 2008 decision "a dead letter."
Seven detainees tried one more time in an appeal to the Supreme Court, asking the justices to review their detentions and the way the lower courts were handling the cases.
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Read more: http://www.npr.org/2012/06/11/154776888/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-guantanamo-appeals
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169 prisoners at Guantanamo for one year we could full ride about 14,000 kids to public universities for 4 years or lock the prisoners up state side for approximately 1/30 the cost annually. And this doesn't even address the cost of their legal representation or whether they should even be in custody. Guantanamo is another example of political fiscal responsibility, like the $20 billion annual cost for air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan or the $200 million per copy (latest projected cost overrun) for the F-35, and what discussion of monetary priorities would be complete without the infamous (exact 10 or 13 digit figure unknown) bailout of the rich boys on Wall Street? 
