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Thanks much, a pretty well balanced article!
This one error gets my goat though:
"U.S. officials have told the courts that they can detain and interrogate him until the executive branch declares an end to the war against terrorism. "
"until the president determines, in effect, that hostilities between the United States and that individual have ended. "
... or the congress rescinds his authorization.
This is really irritating to me- congress is getting a free pass on this. Yet they are where the buck stops.

"A federal district judge in Virginia, Robert G. Doumar"
This guy is a egotistical fool IMHO, the appeal court practically told him to give Hamdi monitored access to a lawyer but Doumar is trying to do it all himself.

"and then it never gives the individual a fair chance to see if the surveillance was lawful," Martin said "
But the warrant would have been reviewed by the FISA court, and then by the trial court in camera. An alien deportation hearing might not see it- I'm not sure.