Supreme Court to Hear case Guantanamo for Uighurs

This is breaking news for The Washington Post

News Alert
10:10 AM EDT Tuesday, October 20, 2009

High court to consider Uighurs' plea for freedom

The Supreme Court is taking up a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon determines they're not a threat to the United States.

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It seemed hard to know what phrase to search on so I used tweetvolume and tried several. This is the result.

Uighurs obviously goes beyond the specific event. I decided on "supreme court uighurs." The first search did not happen until October 21, which was a day after the breaking news report from The Post. The first search found 157 messages going back to 9:00 a.m. October 20.

It may have been breaking news, but it did not get off the ground. The total number messages collected was163 -- that is only 6 messages after the first day.

The .txt file that can be read by Excel to acquire the data is: supreme court uighurs.txt

And much later the case is settled with the Uighers the losers.

News Alert: Court dismisses appeal of Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay
10:07 AM EST Monday, March 1, 2010
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Supreme Court last October set aside the objections of the Obama administration and said that it would consider whether judges have the power to release Guantanamo Bay detainees into the United States if they have been deemed not to be "enemy combatants."

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