To the editor,

Foreign terrorism suspects held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba have constitutional rights to challenge their detention there in United States courts, the Supreme Court ruled, 5 to 4, on Thursday in a historic decision on the balance between personal liberties and national security.

This is exactly what the opponents of President Bush are looking for. They are more interested in "civil liberties" than in our security. Their next move will be to stop our electronic surveillance of messages from foreign terrorists to those in our country. With this we are in effect commiting suicide.

This action will do more harm to the American people than to President Bush.