To: Dog
Now the 2nd Circuit has held that Padilla must be released from military custody, saying that a US citizen may not be siezed on US soil as an enemy combatant. He must be transferred to civilian custody and may be held as a material witness as a grand jury considers charges.
This is good. I don't trust our government when it takes citizen and holds them indefinately without access to lawyers. It shocks the conscience, actually. It's something Saddam would have done and I'm sure did do.
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