[ksen]

If you read the exchange provided at the bottom, it is pretty straightforward. The constitution does not grant a right-- in the way that we find things such as freedom of speech. The constitution acknowleges habeas corpus but it is not the the origin of that claim.

Are you serious? The Constitution is not the origin of any of our rights. Our rights exist because we are human and endowed by our Creator....yada yada yada. The Constitution merely protects our rights from undue government interference.

This was one of the reasons people objected to including the Bill of Rights because certain other people would come along and say if it's not enumerated in the Constitution then we don't have it.

Sorry, it doesn't work that way, not even to protect something stupid the President's AG said.

[lonestar67]

This should go down as yet another silly reactionary thread on FR desperate to prove the evils of the Bush administration.

Gonzales never says Americans don't have habeas rights. He simply specifies issues of origin.

The Gitmo detainees can rot.

That is what this nonsense is about and we all know it.

The effort to strain out something else is untrue.