Ruling on 8 detainees is possible today

February 22, 2008 at 5:01AM

Lawyers for eight Guantanamo Bay detainees who are appealing their classification as enemy combatants have told the Supreme Court that it would be "unconscionable" to grant the Bush administration's request for further delay in producing the records necessary for the appeals to move forward. The justices might act on the case as early as today.

Separately, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay said he would be a defense witness for the driver of Osama bin Laden. Air Force Col. Morris Davis, who resigned in October over alleged political interference in the U.S. military tribunals, said he will appear at a hearing for Salim Ahmed Hamdan. He alleges that Pentagon General Counsel William Haynes said in August 2005 that any acquittals of terrorism suspects at Guantanamo would make the United States look bad. Haynes denies having made the statement.

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