“Does this provision apply on American soil, or only overseas?”
The passage of the bill cited in the article doesn’t really say.
“An individual, including a citizen of the United States, determined to be an unprivileged enemy belligerent under section 3(c)(2) in a manner which satisfies Article 5 of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War may be detained without criminal charges and without trial for the duration of hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners in which the individual has engaged, or which the individual has purposely and materially supported, consistent with the law of war and any authorization for the use of military force provided by Congress pertaining to such hostilities.”
These kinds of articles are very annoying when they do not give the title or number of the bill, so you can look them up and read them for yourself.
Curiouser and curiouser. The text of the bill, S.3081, is not on the Library of Congress Thomas website, nor at any other sites, including McCain’s Senate website list of legislation he is sponsoring. Yet this quotes the bill. Where this is provision come from?