i do love everything lewis carroll

so this is especially poignant to me. oh AND SO VERY TELLING
this is a pretty good story

Judges cite nonsense poem in Guantanamo case
The Associated Press
By MATT APUZZO

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court reviewing evidence at Guantanamo Bay compared a Bush administration legal argument to one made by a hapless, dimwitted character in a 19th century nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit cited the 1876 poem, "The Hunting of the Snark," in ruling that the military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim as an enemy combatant. The ruling was issued last week but an unclassified version of the opinion was released only Monday.........