“Thank you, for writing such a wonderfully informative article on the importance of the Supreme Court’s meeting tomorrow in Washington, DC. I understood some of the facts, but your explanation on what has occurred to these prisoners in the past seven years helped me to finally clearly understand. I was also unaware that there was more then one Military Attorney from the Tribunals speaking up against what the government was doing to these people. Again, thank you.”

I don’t normally reproduce comments in response to articles published on the Huffington Post (as they’re readily available on the site), but I was particularly gratified by this response to the article from a commentator identified only as “wldnswmmr”:

“Bravo, Andy. I read your book, and it’s a masterpiece of objectivity and human decency. Anyone who blithely accepts the Bush administration’s cover story that the detainees at Gitmo are the ‘worst of the worst’ who should be denied even the basic right to ask why they’re in jail should read your book and explore the issue. They will see just how deeply the concept of due process has been gouged out of the Constitution by the Bush people.”

And finally, regular correspondent and tireless activist Katherine Hughes wrote to ask permission to reproduce the article on Dhafir Trial (http://www.dhafirtrial.net), the site devoted to freeing the wrongly imprisoned charity director Dr. Rafil Dhafir, and Bart Frazier, Program Director for The Future of Freedom Foundation, wrote to let me know that the article had been posted to Wednesday’s edition of FFF Email Update at: http://www.fff.org/whatsnew/2007-12-05.htm

Thanks, all. Your comments are much appreciated.