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Originally Posted by Mike P
Actually, the naval base at Gitmo is a US territory, under lease from Cuba. The fact that Castro doesn't accept it as such doesn't change its legal status for the courts here. The detainees there do have the protection of US law in some respects, at least. A couple have been granted legal relief by the Supreme Court, in an opinion written by the most conservative Justice on the Court, Scalia.
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Just to pick nits, it is not a U.S. "territory." It is a location subject to U.S. juristiction and the applicability of consitutional right ot persons in that area is subject to legal debate. The Marshall Islands are a territory.