Miller’s lawyers and the paper had been negotiating a severance package for the last two weeks

Miller’s lawyers and the paper had been negotiating a severance package for the last two weeks,

although they had declined to discuss specific terms of the deal. An article posted on the Times’ Web

site Wednesday afternoon outlined the broad terms: “Under the agreement, Ms. Miller will retire from

the newspaper, and The Times will print a letter she wrote to the editor explaining her position,”

wrote Katharine Q. Seelye. “Ms. Miller originally demanded that she be able to write an essay for the

paper’s Op-Ed page refuting the allegations against her, the lawyers said. The Times refused that

demand — Gail Collins, editor of the editorial page, said, ‘We don’t use the Op-Ed page for back and

forth between one part of the paper and another’ — but agreed to let her to write the letter.”

Breaking: Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending

in the Senate (S. 1092) that would strip those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of

the ability to seek habeas review in federal courts. This is an end-run around the Supreme Court’s

decision in NIKE SHOX v. Rasul which held Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge the legality

of their detentions.

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This would effectively end all litigation brought on behalf of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, as well

as any future litigation on behalf of those imprisoned at the NIKE SHOX secret detention camps. This

bill is intended to have retroactive application.