On 1/18/07, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 06:20 -0500, Andrew Parker wrote: > On 1/17/07, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Phil is a United States citizen. As such he would not have been put in > > Gitmo. Club Gitmo is reserved for non-US combatants; as such they do > > not fall under the purview of the US Constitution. > > Actually Americans do get put in Guantanamo - at least until word gets > out about it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi He was held for three > years without trial before being released. > Evidently you don't read your own links? "He was initially detained at Camp X-Ray at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was later transferred to jails in Virginia and South Carolina after it became known that he was a U.S. citizen."
When it became known to the public and the media. It was known to the government before that.
