U.S. Judges Cite Lewis Carroll Poem in Analyzing Guantanamo Bay Decision
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A federal appeals court is comparing a military decision at Guantanamo Bay to a nonsensical 19th-century poem by Lewis Carroll.
In the first court ruling to analyze a decision to hold a detainee as an enemy combatant, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit questioned some of the government logic. It ordered that a Chinese Muslim held for years be released.
Monday's opinion chided the government for insisting that a piece of evidence was valid because it appeared on three documents. The court said all three documents apparently came from the same dubious source.
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The judges compared the argument to "The Hunting of the Snark," an 1876 poem that includes the line, "I have said it thrice: What I tell you three times is true."