That makes sense; it seemed like that when I was there last fall.
I heard that it would still be technically legal for you to be arrested there, secretly tried by a military court, and then executed, without any right to outside counsel. I don't know whether this is still true, though.
Outside of wartime such action would be of dubious legality. Most of the fundamental features of American law (e.g. trial by jury, Habeas Corpus, etc) are taken from long-standing traditions of English Common law.