Padilla, an American citizen has been held as a prisoner for 7 months WITHOUT being charged with a crime and WITHOUT access to a lawyer. That is WRONG. And this wrong must be corrected. He should have been charged with a crime or set free. Period. The government has no right, nor authority to hold US Citizens as criminal prisoners without charging them with crimes.
I disagree. He is being held as an enemy combatant, and could potentially pass information detrimental to the lives and safety of other American citizens through a legal conduit.
In fact, I feel that all American Islamists, i.e, those who would implement jihad to invoke sharia, or Islamic law, on the infidel by force, if so identified, should be similarly detained.