Sec. 201: Prohibition of Disclosure of Terrorism Investigation Detainee Information. 13.Notwithstanding section 552 of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of law, 14.no officer, employee, or agency of the United States shall disclose, without the prior 15.determination of the Attorney General or the Director of Central Intelligence that such 16.disclosure will not adversely impact the national security interests of the United States, the 17.names or other identifying information relating to any alien who is detained within the United 18.States, or any individual who is detained outside the United States, in the course of any 19.investigation of international terrorism until such time as such individual is served with a 20.criminal indictment or information.I see a danger to US citizens in the above section, since a US citizen can get turned into a non-citizen, or alien, based on their membership in a terrorist organization. And of course the government would decide who belongs in terrorist organizations and what groups get designated terrorist.
As long as they say (to themselves) Citizen X belongs to a terrorist organization, they don't have to release any information about his detention prior to trial. He can just disappear.
I see a danger to US citizens in the above section, since a US citizen can get turned into a non-citizen, or alien, based on their membership in a terrorist organization. And of course the government would decide who belongs in terrorist organizations and what groups get designated terrorist.Well, what is the procedure for doing so? Can the government do so on a whim, or is some element of due process involved (i.e. notice, a fair hearing, appropriate checks and balances between the executive and judicial branches)?