(2003-11-13) Supreme Court Gitmo Hearing

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear its first case arising from the war on terrorism, an appeal asking whether foreigners held at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay/Cuba may contest their captivity in American courts... The George W Bush administration maintains that because the men were picked up overseas on suspicion of terrorism and are being held on foreign land they may be detained indefinitely without charges or trial... "We believe that the law is on our side," White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Monday. "We've always said with the detainees that they are being treated consistently with International Law and we believe that we're right in this."