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WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 – The commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo believes two very different Guantanamos exist today. “There is the Guantanamo that exists in what I would call pop culture and the media and most people’s minds, and then there is the Guantanamo that exists here, the one that I see every day,” Navy Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby said in a teleconference from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with online journalists and bloggers. People who visit the detention facility for enemy combatants and see the conditions there come away with a much different impression from that formed by people...

Hoover senior fellow Peter Berkowitz, chairman of Hoover's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security, explains that the war against terror does indeed pose formidable challenges for the American legal system, in part because the United States is facing a threat "unlike any other in its history." Berkowitz states that, unlike previous enemies of the United States, this new enemy is "not part of a nation-state, does not fight in uniformed troops against other armies in uniformed troops, and does not limit itself to conventional armed conflict but instead targets civilians or operates in civilian areas, and its threat could continue...

UNITED NATIONS - A U.N. human rights expert is calling on the United States to prosecute or release suspects detained as "unlawful enemy combatants" and to move quickly to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. Martin Scheinin, the U.N.'s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, said in a report released Monday that he's concerned about U.S. detention practices, military courts and interrogation techniques. He urged the U.S. government to end the CIA practice of extraordinary rendition, in which terrorism suspects are taken to foreign countries for interrogation. Scheinin said he was also concerned about what he...

The name of Alberto Gonzales is rapidly becoming synonymous with all that has gone wrong under the Bush administration. Repeated media discussions of the US secretary of state in the most contentious tones have served to lay the blame for all the ailments that infected American democracy under Bush squarely on one man’s shoulders. President Bush himself, Gonzales’ loyal boss, friend and the hand behind all the stunts and tricks that Gonzales so indefatigably performed to defend and justify the unjustifiable, remains immune to any meaningful criticism. Bush is well-known for his habit of awarding sensitive posts to old friends,...

A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had "over-invested" in them. His proposed "big brother" solutions flabbergasted delegates at the Australian Bar Association's biennial conference, where David Hicks's lawyer, Major Michael Mori,...

Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once a week. Cheney brought a four-page text, written in strict secrecy by his lawyer. He carried it back out with him after lunch. In less than an hour, the document traversed a West Wing circuit that gave its words the power of command. It changed hands four times, according to witnesses, with emphatic instructions to bypass staff review. When it returned to the Oval Office, in a blue portfolio embossed with the...

Court rules against U.S. on combatants 15 minutes ago A federal appeals court on Monday ruled that the Bush administration cannot legally detain an immigrant as an enemy combatant without charge.

"Usama Bin Laden he did his best press conference in the American media" bottom of page 21. "If now George Washington. If now we were living in the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American they consider him as hero." ........... Where Michael Moore got his Minuteman analogy. Chilling. They know our society, culture, politics and our self-destructive left better than we do.

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary February 14, 2007 Executive Order Trial of Alien Unlawful Enemy Combatants by Military Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (Public Law 109‑366), the Authorization for Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40), and section 948b(b) of title 10, United States Code, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Establishment of Military Commissions. There are hereby established military commissions to try alien unlawful enemy combatants for offenses triable by...

December 31, 2006 1,500 in Minneapolis protest ouster of Sharia government in Somalia What are 1,500 supporters of Islamic jihad and Sharia law doing in Minneapolis? What are the implications of this for our own national security? Why is no one with any power or influence even asking these questions? "Area Somalis want peace for homeland: Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists," by Liz Fedor in the Star Tribune, with thanks to CGW: More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian...

In a surprising move yesterday, Christopher Dodd (D-CT) announced that he would introduce legislation to guarantee US Constitutional Rights to enemy combatants, and would seek to repeal portions of the recently enacted Military Commissions Act. source: "It's clear the people who perpetrated these horrendous crimes against our country and our people have no moral compass and deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But in taking away their legal rights, the rights first codified in our country's Constitution, we're taking away our own moral compass, as well."� If Dodd believes that last week's election was a...

On Tuesday, October 17, 2006, another nail was pounded into freedom's coffin when President Bush signed the Military Commissions Act into law. Within the Act, the 800-year tradition of Habeas Corpus -- the right of the accused to face their accuser in court -- was essentially eliminated.While much of the mainstream media glossed over this news with a disinterested yawn, one brave commentator made no bones about the magnitude of this treachery. Watch MSNBC's Keith Olbermann at http://tinyurl.com/yk6osh as he comments on this appalling development. If you do nothing else, WATCH THIS VIDEO! It will make your blood boil, to...

"Trust the president." That was the Bush administration's main defense of the president's bizarre choice of corporate lawyer Harriet Miers for a seat on the Supreme Court. But the administration also had a backup rationale: as D.C.'s Hill newspaper reported, in an October 3, 2005, conference call with conservative leaders, Republican National Committee chair Ken Mehlman stressed "the need to confirm a justice who will not interfere with the administration's management of the war on terrorism." It was a bit unsettling to hear that proposition stated so baldly, but no one who has followed the administration's drive to expand executive...

Nothing could better prove the New World Order/Internationalist/World Federation conspiracies than the attempts by the left (and somewhat President Bush) to minimalize the value of being an United States Citizen.Illegal immigrants have been given nearly full citizenship rights - without being Americanized or Naturalized.Islamic enemy combatants have also been afforded Constitutional rights - even while actively terrorizing the United States. What's with Dual and Tri citizenship?Below is the highly ignored "Oath Of Citizenship" from the United States Citizenship And Immigration Service.The Oath of Citizenship"I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity...

A federal appeals court has said Osama bin Laden's driver can face a war crimes tribunal at Guantánamo after all, reversing a lower court ruling and setting the stage for a Supreme Court challenge. A federal appeals court handed the Bush administration a key victory Friday in its war-against-terrorism strategy, ruling that the Pentagon could put Osama bin Laden's Yemeni driver on trial for war crimes at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld President Bush's war powers to create a military commission to try Salim Ahmed...

Four "dangerous enemy combatants" have escaped from the main US base in Afghanistan, the US military has said.

From Wesley Clark's securingamerica.com - July 8, 2005 Returning soon.

Stop Blaming the Troops - Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces. Today, the reports of abuse and humiliation at detainment facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba are distracting the world from focusing on winning the war on terror. Although the military chain of command seems to have properly investigated the role of its personnel and held accountable those in the wrong, the civilian leadership in...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican senators called on Wednesday for the rights of foreign terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay prison to be legally defined even as the Bush administration said the inmates could be jailed there "in perpetuity." ADVERTISEMENT The prison, currently holding roughly 520 inmates, opened on the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in January 2002 in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Many of the detainees have been held for more than three years, and only four have been charged. At a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican Chairman Arlen Specter...

A human rights group has criticized proposed Pentagon guidelines for handling military detainees, saying the new rules might allow the military to deny some detainees their rights under the Geneva Conventions. The proposed guidelines are aimed at preventing the abuse of U.S. military detainees that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. But Human Rights Watch said the proposal could lead to abuses that amount to war crimes under international law. Instead of correcting current violations of the Geneva Conventions, these guidelines would shred the conventions further," he said in a written statement released the same day. Specifically, the guidelines...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A reported U.S. plan to keep some suspected terrorists imprisoned for a lifetime even if the government lacks evidence to charge them in courts was swiftly condemned on Sunday as a "bad idea" by a leading Republican senator. The Pentagon and the CIA have asked the White House to decide on a more permanent approach for those it was unwilling to set free or turn over to U.S. or foreign courts, the Washington Post said in a report that cited intelligence, defense and diplomatic officials. Some detentions could potentially last a lifetime, the newspaper said. Influential senators...

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration served official notice Friday that it will appeal a judge's ruling that stopped proceedings in the first trial by a military commission of an alleged al-Qaida member. The two-page notice filed by the Justice Department said the government will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. No immediate timetable was given for filing of the appeal. The ruling Monday by U.S. District Judge James Robertson found that detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may be considered prisoners of war entitled to certain rights under...

Judge Rules Against Patriot Act Provision Wed Sep 29, 5:08 PM ET By Gail Appleson NEW YORK (Reuters) - Surveillance powers granted to the FBI (news - web sites) under the Patriot Act, a cornerstone of the Bush Administration's war on terror, were ruled unconstitutional by a judge on Wednesday in a new blow to U.S. security policies. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero, in the first decision against a surveillance portion of the act, ruled for the American Civil Liberties Union (news - web sites) in its challenge against what it called "unchecked power" by the FBI to demand confidential...

August 5, 2004 Group Planning Illegal Protests on Second Day of ConventionBy DIANE CARDWELL embers of a group opposed to the Republican National Convention, many describing themselves as anarchists, said yesterday that they would carry out illegal protest activities on the convention's second day.Organizers in the group, the A31 Action Coalition, said they were calling for a nationwide day of nonviolent civil disobedience on Aug. 31 aimed at using parts of Midtown to stage demonstrations, without permits, against the Bush administration. The organizers said they were looking to break free of government intervention to have their say; they called the...

Each day, more and more it seems, the Old Gray Lady transmogrifies into America's al-Jazeera. The following appeared in a New York Times editorial this weekend: For more than two years now, about 600 men have been kept in American custody in Cuba, and the odds are that some — perhaps most — were merely hapless Afghan foot soldiers or bystanders swept up in the confusion of the American invasion. But it took the Supreme Court to tell the Bush administration they could not be kept there forever without giving them a chance to contest their imprisonment. [Emphasis added.]...

"Enemy Combatants May Challenge Captivity" sounds like a satirical headline. It isn't. The headline comes from the Associated Press, reporting on the Supreme Court's extension of habeas corpus to Al Qaeda on Monday. Historians of the war on terror should take note. While terrorists chopped off the heads of Americans, America's highest court was extending the Bill of Rights to beheaders. Justice John Paul Stevens writes that terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay can pursue litigation under American law. The press reports him saying that nothing in American law "excludes aliens detained in military custody outside the United States from the...

This is the thread for a legal oriented discussion of Rasul v. Bush, which may be the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott case. The link is to an Adobe Acrobat reader version of the ruling's text. I'm a lawyer and will analyze this opinion, and its implications, later today after studying it more carefully.

Treating terrorists with kid gloves won't protect American soldiers. It was a when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife moment. Attorney General John Ashcroft went before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week and declared, "This Administration rejects torture." Given the circumstances, it's hard to blame Mr. Ashcroft for being so defensive. But it sure would be helpful if someone in the Administration would take the initiative to challenge this latest Beltway uproar. At the very least, officials might muster some outrage over Democratic and media implications that U.S. officials have been in the business of justifying the use of torture.

<p>The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments about whether the president can designate U.S. citizens arrested in this country as "enemy combatants" and detain them indefinitely without charge or access to legal counsel. Rarely has the court faced a more critical responsibility.</p>

Contrary to the fearful voice of Associate Justice Robert Jackson dissenting in Korematsu vs. United States (1944), emergency powers asserted by presidents in times of war have not turned into loaded guns lying around for misuse by any zealous official who claims an urgent need. History speaks otherwise. During the Civil War, for instance, President Abraham Lincoln extraconstitutionally summoned an army, expended unappropriated funds, unilaterally suspended the writ of habeas corpus, and suppressed speech friendly to the Confederacy. Congress belatedly ratified Lincoln's legislative usurpations. They were not repeated during the war. Neither did they establish presidential war principles that crept...

Unlawful combatants don't deserve POW status because their aim is to destroy America Opponents of U.S. policy on the detention of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay continue to argue that without prisoner-of-war status, terrorists remain in a "legal limbo," since they do not have access to lawyers or reporters who would tell their stories. Likewise, critics argue the detainees do not have any protections under the Geneva Conventions and are subject to torture and other human-rights abuses. Having traveled to Guantanamo Bay's Camp Delta on several occasions I can attest that allegations of inhumane treatment are simply untrue. Likewise, POW...

<p>We just got preliminary word on Fox from Atlanta (and I'm in Idaho so I am using FR to scour the net) that there will be no prosecution.</p> <p>"Col West's attorney was interviewed tonight. The attorney said that the investigating officer would recommend that there not be a court martial but that he might be reprimanded. Likely half of his salary for two months and that he would not lose his pension."</p>

KABUL, Afghanistan - Amnesty International criticized the U.S. military on Monday for failing to announce the results of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two Afghans at a prison inside Bagram air base a year ago. The two men died about a week apart while in U.S. custody at the base north of Kabul, the Afghan capital, and official autopsies concluded their deaths were homicides. The U.S. Army then announced a separate criminal investigation, but no reports on its progress or conclusions have been made public, Amnesty said. The deceased were Mullah Habibullah, about 30 years old, who died...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Tony Blair has failed to wring concessions from President George W. Bush on the fate of British citizens jailed at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The treatment of at least nine Britons being held without trial as "enemy combatants" has been a note of discord in the staunch U.S.-British alliance in the war on global terrorism. Speculation had grown that Bush would use his three-day visit to London to announce that the Britons, mostly detained in Afghanistan, might be sent to Britain for trial. At a joint news conference, Bush said on...

CJTF-7 Public Affairs BAGHDAD, Iraq Enemy combatants killed AR RAMADI, Iraq – Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment received small arms fire from a truck this morning.  The soldiers were investigating a site where a Bradley struck a landmine yesterday.  The soldiers returned fire killing two of the enemy attackers.  A third insurgent ran from the vehicle and was later detained.In a separate incident last night, three Iraqis were killed and two were wounded   while soldiers maintained traffic checkpoints in Ramadi. The checkpoints had been established and the road cordoned because an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team was investigating a...

An appeals court will hear arguments today in the case of a former Chicago gang member who has been held as an enemy combatant for nearly 18 months in a terrorism probe. Jose Padilla's attorney, Donna Newman, says the high stakes of the arguments are clear every time she encounters people familiar with the case. She says many are amazed to learn that Padilla, who is a U.S. citizen, remains jailed without charges and access to a lawyer since he was picked up in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport, suspected of a role in a ''dirty bomb'' plot. A "dirty...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal appeals judge said yesterday it would be "a sea change" in the Constitution to allow the Bush administration to designate a U.S. citizen suspected in a reputed dirty-bomb plot as an enemy combatant. In a critical showdown between the government and civil liberties lawyers, two members of a three-judge federal panel seemed hesitant to embrace the government's reasoning for why Abdullah al-Muhajir, 33, should be held indefinitely without access to an attorney and without being charged. Al-Muhajir, who was born Jose Padilla but took a Muslim name upon converting to Islam, is accused of plotting with al Qaeda to detonate a "dirty" bomb," which uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials. The former Chicago gang member was taken into custody in May 2002, and has spent most of the time since then in a naval brig in Charleston, S.C. In the two-hour hearing before the appeals panel yesterday, Deputy Solicitor General Paul D. Clement suggested that the urgency of the war against terrorism necessitated such moves. "Al Qaeda made the battlefields the United States and they've given every indication they're trying to make the United States the battlefield again," he said. But Judge Barrington D. Parker Jr. said he believed the power to designate a U.S. citizen as an enemy combatant rested with Congress, rather than the president. Giving such power to the executive branch with only limited review by the courts, he said, would be "a sea change in the constitutional life of this country and ... unprecedented in civilized society." Judge Rosemary S. Pooler, another member of the panel, said that "If, in fact, the battlefield is the United States, I think Congress has to say that, and I don't think they have yet." Later, she added, "As terrible as nine-eleven was, it didn't repeal the Constitution." Specifically, the government was asking the court to overturn a finding by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Michael Mukasey that al-Muhajir is entitled to meet with his lawyers and contest being designated as an enemy combatant. Jenny Martinez, a Stanford Law School professor who argued on al-Muhajir's behalf, said the government believed it could designate anyone, even a citizen, an enemy combatant at any time. "This new power government is looking for is entirely unprecedented," she said. The third panel member, Judge Richard C. Wesley, suggested the case shouldn't have been brought in Manhattan. "This should be litigated in South Carolina," Judge Wesley snapped. The judges weren't expected to issue their ruling for weeks if not longer. While two of three judges expressed doubts about the government's arguments, they could still opt to refer the case to another court, as Judge Wesley suggested. Al-Muhajir was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport as he returned from Pakistan. The government said he had proposed to Abu Zubaydah, then al Qaeda's top terrorism coordinator, to steal radioactive material to detonate a dirty bomb in the United States. Only two other persons have been designated enemy combatants since the 2001 terrorist attacks: Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, a Qatari citizen who has been accused of being an al Qaeda sleeper agent, and Esam Hamdi, a Louisiana native captured in the fighting in Afghanistan.</p>

The detainees held at Guantanamo Bay shouldn't hire Alan Dershowitz quite yet. News accounts have played the Supreme Court's decision to consider whether U.S. courts have jurisdiction over Guantanamo as a setback to the Bush administration's position that the courts have nothing to do with it. "An unmistakable rebuff," according to the New York Times. This is media wishful thinking that coincides with a new vogue for the rights of "enemy combatants" in the Democratic party. Al Gore recently unleashed the U-bomb ("un-American") to characterize the handling of captured Taliban fighters: "The Bush administration's treatment of American citizens it calls...

I recently wrote an article an published on FreeRepublic entitled Colonel West...you've got my back anytime. That article haas received a lot of attention and became a very good thread with people inside and outside the military analyzing and commneting on the episode in Iraq where this fine Lt. Colonel acted on his own volition in a time-sensitive, combat environment to extract information from an enemy spy within the coalition fomred and supported Iraqi Police Force. The method of intimidation Colonel West used to extract the information has become the center of controversy and is leading to military legal proceedings...

<p>The Supreme Court yesterday agreed to consider whether 16 detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have access to U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment without formal charges.</p> <p>The two British citizens, two Australians and 12 Kuwaitis are among 600 suspected Taliban and al Qaeda members from 40 nations being held in the wake of the Afghanistan war. They have not been given access to attorneys or to their families.</p>

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894   November 9, 2003Release Number: 03-11-05 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TASK FORCE OPERATIONS PROVE SUCCESSFUL AR RAMADI, Iraq – Soldiers from Task Force All-American continue to conduct missions directed at stopping violence toward the Iraqi people and Coalition forces and also promoting peace and development throughout their area of operations. The 82nd Airborne Division, also known as the All American Division, went on 168 patrols, eight of which were joint patrols carried out with members of the border guard and Iraqi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has stayed out of judging the Bush administration's terrorism-fighting strategy, but that soon could change. Lower courts have kept busy with challenges to the imprisonment of "enemy combatants" in the United States, government spying, secrecy about immigrants arrested after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the detention of terrorism suspects in Cuba. Several justices have said they eventually expect to take cases related to the fight against terrorism. "It's going to get harder and harder I think for the Supreme Court to stay out of these," American Civil Liberties Union legal director Steven Shapiro said. The...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court has stayed out of judging the Bush administration's terrorism-fighting strategy, but that soon could change. Lower courts have kept busy with challenges to the imprisonment of "enemy combatants" in the United States, government spying, secrecy about immigrants arrested after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the detention of terrorism suspects in Cuba. Several justices have said they eventually expect to take cases related to the fight against terrorism. "It's going to get harder and harder I think for the Supreme Court to stay out of these," American Civil Liberties Union legal director Steven Shapiro said. The...

<p>An Army Islamic chaplain, who counseled al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base, has been charged with espionage, aiding the enemy and spying, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>Capt. James J. Yee, a 1990 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., was arrested earlier this month by the FBI in Jacksonville, Fla., as he arrived on a military charter flight from Guantanamo, according to a law-enforcement source.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON -- Two Britons and an Australian slated to be tried in U.S. military tribunals are expected to plead guilty to war crimes, officials said, and to renounce terrorism and assist investigators in exchange for a firm release date. Two other tribunal defendants, officials said, are allegedly former bodyguards to Osama bin Laden who belonged to the al Qaeda leader's inner circle and are likely to face the first adversarial trials.</p>

Court Allows Secret Deportation Hearings Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Hundreds of Secret Deportation Hearings Held Since 9/11 The Associated Press WASHINGTON May 27 — The Supreme Court gave the Bush administration a major legal victory in the war on terrorism Tuesday, rejecting a challenge to secret deportation hearings held for hundreds of foreigners detained after the Sept. 11 attacks. After the attacks two years ago, the government ordered all immigration hearings closed if the foreigners were deemed "special interest" cases because of possible connections to terrorism. The government alone decides if a case is of special interest. The court...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) --Military coroners have determined that the deaths of two detainees while in U.S. custody in Afghanistan were homicides, CNN has confirmed.</p> <p>A criminal investigation into the December deaths of the two men is in its final stages, but a U.S. military source said it is not clear whether anyone will be charged.</p>

Dirty-Bomb Suspect Lawyer Meeting Debated NEW YORK (AP)--The government asked a judge to reconsider his ruling that defense lawyers should be allowed to meet with Jose Padilla, a former Chicago gang member accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a dirty bomb. In a case being closely watched by civil liberties advocates, the government wrote in court papers Thursday that it may have failed in prior arguments ``to focus on the grave damage to national security'' that would result if its interrogation of Padilla were interrupted. Letting Padilla see a lawyer would ``set back his interrogation by months, if not...

ATTORNEY General John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace. Ashcroft's plan, disclosed earlier this month but little publicized, would allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring them enemy combatants. The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings and reconsideration of Ashcroft's fitness for this important office. Whereas al-Qaida is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft has...

This is a long report so to save bandwidth you can read the report here. AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION TASK FORCE ON TREATMENT OF ENEMY COMBATANTS PRELIMINARY REPORT I do not agree with all of the Tasks Forces finding though. I support Military Tribunals for terrorist both foreign and domestic providing we comply with the rule of law and the US Constitution. In the case of Padella and to some degree Handi we are not. I note and support the findings on US Citizens. It is this simple. If you do not like the law, change it, not subvert it. For...