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By Glenn Greenwald

Of all the constitutionally threatening and extremist powers the Bush administration has asserted over the last seven years, the most radical -- and the most dangerous -- has been its claim that the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the U.S., and imprison them indefinitely in a military prison, without charging them with any crime.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20297.htm

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Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA): Can the President Detain Anyone Indefinitely?
http://www.commondreams.org/news2008/0717-20.htm

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Gitmo ‘Justice’ for US citizens?

Consortium News
by Robert Parry

07/21/08

A conservative-dominated U.S. Appeals Court has opened the door for President George W. Bush or a successor to throw American citizens – as well as non-citizens – into a legal black hole by designating them “enemy combatants,” even if they have engaged in no violent act and are living on U.S. soil.The federal Appeals Court in Richmond, Virginia, ruled 5-4 on July 15 that Bush had the right, while prosecuting the “war on terror,” to hold Qatari citizen (and Peoria, Illinois, resident) Ali al-Marri indefinitely as an “enemy combatant.”But some of the court’s more liberal judges expressed alarm, saying the legal reasoning that denied al-Marri meaningful due process not only trampled on American legal traditions but could be used to lock up U.S. citizens as well...

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/072108.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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