Last Wednesday, the US Government made it's case in the ongoing court battle of the Guantanimo detainees. Deputy Associate Attorney General Brian Boyle argued that the United States can detain anyone it wants, in any country, at any time, even if said detainee never knowingly did anything that was anti-American, let alone terrorist. Further, Boyle argued, the detainees at Guantanimo have no Constitutional rights.

These are Boyle's exact words: "Someone's intention is clearly not a factor" and foreigners held "have no constitutional rights."

Meanwhile, in the other Guantanimo case where Boyle is currently arguing that the Bill of Rights was just a suggestion (that's right, he's doing two; he's a go-getter) U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon pointed out that "torture is illegal. We all know that."

Not Boyle, apparently: he argues that as long as it's illegal for the U.S. to torture people, it's perfectly okay for the U.S. use information it gets from torturing people.

Sic transit gloria, American Republic.

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