Thursday, September 28, 2006

What's Wrong With the Detainee Bill

Bruce Ackerman, a professor of law and political science at Yale, explains what's wrong with the detainee legistlation (S. 3930) in The White House Warden.

"BURIED IN THE complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as enemy combatants, even if they have never left the United States. And once thrown into military prison, they cannot expect a trial by their peers or any other of the normal protections of the Bill of Rights."

Read the whole article.

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