Judges Need Lewis Carroll to Describe Absurdity of DoJ Case

(Tell me that little fat man in the picture doesn’t look eerily like Karl Rove.)

U.S. Court of Appeals judges likened the Department of Justice case against a Guantanamo Bay prisoner to a Lewis Carroll poem, “The Hunting of the Snark:”

The government suggests that several of the assertions in the intelligence documents are reliable because they are made in at least three different documents,” writes Judge Merrick Garland, “We are not persuaded. Lewis Carroll notwithstanding, the fact the government has ’said it thrice’ does not make the allegation true. In fact we have no basis for concluding that there are independent sources for the documents’ thrice-made assertions.”

The court also ruled the Pentagon improperly labeled Chinese Muslim, Hazaifa Parhat, as an “enemy combatant.”

This is the first time a Guantanamo Bay detainee has been given an opportunity in a civilian court to seek his release. The Judges told prosecutors to release, transfer the prisoner, or expeditiously hold a new tribunal. Parhat has been in custody for more than six years.

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.”