Detainee Bill Shifts Power to President
Rather than reining in the formidable presidential powers Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have asserted since September 11, 2001, the detainee bill gives some of those powers a solid statutory foundation. In effect it allows the president to identify enemies, imprison them indefinitely and interrogate them - albeit with a ban on the harshest treatment - beyond the reach of the full court reviews traditionally afforded criminal defendants and ordinary prisoners.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093006A.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/093006A.shtml
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