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The German edition of Spiegel Online carried an interview with Barbara Olshansky, who directs the International Human Rights Clinic and has worked on the gamut of Guantanamo detention cases--from Rasul v. Bush (2004) to Boumediene v. Bush (2008):
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Is this the end of Guantanamo Bay?
Olshansky: It has to be. It will be interesting to see what the Bush administration is going to do next. This is certainly a fantastic judgment.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: The Supreme Court hardly leaves the government any choice but to close Guantanamo?
Olshansky: The U.S. is caught in an enormous dilemma. The judiciary has taken the Executive to task. The government kept trying to deny “habeas corpus”--the right to judicial investigation of incarceration--from the inmates. The Supreme Court has now ruled: You cannot do that. It has affirmed the rule of law as a fundamental basis of our democracy. It has said that we can no longer hold prisoners all over the world without indictment for an unlimited period of time.