Supreme Court Considers Bush Terror Policies Obama Defends

First Posted: 11/25/09 05:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:10 PM ET

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McClatchy :

Graphic photos of U.S. troops abusing Iraqi prisoners present the Supreme Court with its latest, but not its last, national-security legal dilemma.

On Tuesday, justices will meet privately to consider the incendiary photos, as well as a case involving Chinese Muslim men who've been held without charges at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Both legal disputes could become the highest-profile national security conflicts of the Supreme Court term that starts Oct. 5.

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