View Single Post
  #18  
mburbank mburbank is offline
The Moxie Nerve Food Tonic
mburbank's Avatar
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: right behind you
mburbank has disabled reputation
Old Sep 29th, 2006, 03:20 PM       
I have.

The main problem is the grey area around the now legalized deffinition of 'enemy combatant' which nowhere says it is limmited to non citizens, and the sections on trial and detention, which are said to apply to 'enemy combatants'.

It would make a hell of a legal mess, particularly becuase once declared an enemy combatant, you'd have a very hard time getting access to a lawyer.

There is no oversight at all that I can find regarding the executive branch's determination that someone is an enemy combatant. There are vague reasons they are supposed to have, but no one they need to explain or prove those reasons to.
Reply With Quote