Rights to a jury trial, etc. are constitutionally guaranteed in criminal trials. These guys aren't being tried. They aren't accused of being criminals- just combatants.
Padilla has a lawyer anyway ( and from the circumstances of his capture on US soil that's not a bad idea), I don't think Hamdi has a lawyer- but then he was captured armed in the heat of combat overseas.
The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.
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Rights to a jury trial, etc. are constitutionally guaranteed in criminal trials. These guys aren't being tried. They aren't accused of being criminals- just combatants.
Under the above statement, if this law were to pass then anyone being tried as a terrorist would be exempt from what the 6th Amendment states we are all allowed to have.
In the case of the two animals you are talking about. They were caught plotting. The rights that I would like to see protected are of those people where no crime has been commited. If you read this part again..... may be investigated, jailed, interrogated,
that may indicate to me that they are also refering to people that have not been caught red handed as were the people you are talking about.
He has a lawyer only because he was first arrested in the normal, legal way and his family knew about it. They hired the lawyer who has still not been able to talk to his client.
No cigar for the government on that one.