[dirtboy]

By the way, who would volunteer for "jury duty" for a terrorist trial?

I would in a NY minute. But, once again, I am not arguing that tribunals are unconstitutional. I instead think that the power to establish them should not reside in the executive - that is an easy springboard towards dictatorship.

[zlala]

Good post ... I agree. Power corrupts, .... absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[ex-Texan]

But remember that Lincoln suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus for Americans during the Civil War ..... If that were happening right now CNN (and all the other alphabet net works) would be having a hissy fit.

The President has enormous emergency War Powers granted him by the Constitution as the Commander in Chief.