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Sen. McCain, you called the Supreme Court's recent Guantanamo ruling, which gives Parhat and other detainees the chance to make their case directly to a federal judge, "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country." As someone who spent so long in captivity, could you tell Parhat why it would have been so terrible to let a court hear his case -- years ago?
Mr. Chief Justice, in that decision, you termed the rules under which Parhat was held "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants." True enough. Please explain to Parhat how those protections were adequate.
And Mr. President, Parhat once imagined that America would help the Uighurs, a group your own State Department says has been subjected to "official repression" by the Chinese government. Could you tell him that America has treated him fairly?
If not -- and it's hard to see how you could -- please find a way, before you leave office, to let him go.
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