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Court rules against Guantanamo detainees: "Guantanamo Bay detainees may not challenge their detention in U.S. courts, a federal appeals court said Tuesday in a ruling upholding a key provision of a law at the center of President Bush’s anti-terrorism plan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled 2-1 that civilian courts no longer have the authority to consider whether the military is illegally holding foreigners. Barring prisoners from the U.S. court system was a key provision in the Military Commissions Act, which Bush pushed through Congress last year to set up a system to prosecute terrorism suspects." This will undoubtedly find its way to the Supreme Court.

Breaking—Al Sadr's Office Attacked: Cernig's got the scoop; I share his curiosity about "whether we will see new claims of Iranian meddling after this," since the report mentions a confiscation of documents.

Bush was aware of conditions at Walter Reed: Says Tony Snow, "[T]he president certainly has been aware of the conditions in the wards where he has visited." I suspect, however, the claim is simply that Bush never visited Building 18.