Screw the AP....

In the "no duhh" no-brainer story of the day, in what should be a non-story during a time of war, the AP reports...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration said Monday that Guantanamo Bay prisoners have no right to challenge their detentions in civilian courts and that lawsuits by hundreds of detainees should be dismissed.

In court documents filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit, the Justice Department defended the military's authority to arrest people overseas and detain them indefinitely without access to courts.

It's the first time that argument has been spelled out since President Bush signed a law last month setting up military commissions for the thousands of foreigners being held in U.S. prisons abroad.

Bush hailed the law as a crucial tool in the war on terrorism and said it would allow prosecution of several high-level terror suspects.

Of course, nowhere does the proposed law state that the U.S. has the right to torture prisoners (AND I MEAN TORTURE). Nowhere does the law state that the U.S. has the right to starve them.

Yet if one only had this headline to go by, to what other conclusion can one come?:

Administration: Detainees have no rights

Of course, this headline is blatantly false and deceiving. But never let the truth get in the way of driving your agenda, eh Matt Apuzzo?