[aristeides]

He said the government claimed the right to make US citizens just disappear, no trial..no records...not even any mention in the press.

That's basically the argument the DOJ has made to judges in the Hamdi and Padilla cases. I don't understand why anybody in the government would want to make that argument.

[FreeTheHostages]

Detention with a lawyer provided and a judge overseeing it is not "no record." The press doesn't have a right to know, and perhaps some of these detained people don't *want* their case publicized (for rather obvious reasons).