Why is the White House so afraid of letting our Constitutional system of justice work?  Now that the Supreme Court has ruled detainees can challenge their detention in court, the Cheneyburton Maladministration wants you to think that suddenly there will be terrorists walking the streets!  Yup, if we can’t hold them secretly without rights and trials and torture them from time to time, the only other option is to let the most dangerous killers in the world run free throughout small town America.

White House says ruling could free detainees in US - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON - The White House said Thursday that dangerous detainees at Guantanamo Bay could end up walking Main Street U.S.A. as a result of last month’s Supreme Court ruling about detainees’ legal rights. Federal appeals courts, however, have indicated they have no intention of letting that happen.

“I’m sure that none of us want Khalid Sheikh Mohammed walking around our neighborhoods,” White House press secretary Dana Perino said about al-Qaida’s former third in command.

“We are in uncharted territory, and we have never had enemy combatants afforded constitutional rights like all of us have, so anybody who thinks that they know exactly what’s going to happen if a detainee challenges his detention — his or her detention — in court, they’re not being honest because we don’t know what’s going to happen,” Perino said.

“But there is considered judgment, from many federal government lawyers — all the way up to the attorney general of the United States_ that it is a very real possibility that a dangerous detainee could be released into the United States as a result of this Supreme Court decision.”

“The judge might say to the United States, ‘You don’t have enough evidence to hold this person,’” Perino said. “And then what do we do? … Is he allowed to leave? And if so, is he picked up by immigration? Even if that’s the case, they’re only allowed to be held for six months.”

Wait a minute, do you mean to say that if we can’t prove we even have enough probable cause to detain someone we suspect is a dangerous killer, much less be able to prove in a court of law that the detainee is a dangerous killer, then these people we just have a hunch about being dangerous killers will be stalking our kids at the swimming pool this summer?

Or could it be that most of the people rounded up into Guantanamo are not dangerous killers, but just poor losers who ended up on the wrong side of a tribal feud and were turned over for some bounty money?  Could it be you don’t have enough evidence to stand up in court because there was no evidence to be found, you just wanted to round up Ay-rabs and do unspeakable things to them in a “shock and awe” psychological campaign?