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The report may be read here.
Newark, NJ, June 17, 2008 -- Seton Hall Law's Center for Policy and Research has issued a report revealing that Justice Scalia's dissenting opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, which accords Guantanamo detainees the right to habeas corpus review in federal court, cites inaccurate information that was retracted by its original source, the Department of Defense (DoD). ... On June 12, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissenting opinion on the ruling stated that '[a]t least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo Bay have returned to the battlefield.' The statistic was endorsed by a Senate Minority Report issued June 26, 2007, which cites a media outlet, CNN. CNN, in turn, named the DoD as its source. The '30' number, however, was corrected in a DoD press release issued in July 2007, and a DoD document submitted to the House Foreign Relations Committee on May 20, 2008 abandons the claim entirely. ....
The report may be read here.
