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July 30, 2003
This Should Send a Shudder Along Your Spine
I'm not very political and I stay out of the whole 'warblogging' crapola, but this article in this morning's Washington Post worries even apolitical, apathetic ol' me: Enemy Combatant Vanishes Into a 'Legal Black Hole'. Quote:
The pivotal question: Can an American citizen, arrested on U.S. soil, be held incommunicado in a military prison indefinitely -- without being charged with a crime, without access to a lawyer?The answer, apparently, is yes. Jose Padilla is a US Citizen who alledgedly had knowledge of an Al Qaeda plan to detonate a "dirty bomb" on US soil. The Bush administration declared Padilla an "enemy combatant," suspended his rights, and have been holding him without indictment, trial or legal counsel for over a year now.
Chilling.
Posted July 30, 2003 06:13 PM