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...jailed indefinitely, without charge, if they are suspected of terrorism. The FBI can now investigate American citizens without probable cause of their involvement with a crime. And the mere accusation of being an “enemy combatant” is enough to land you in a Navy brig without access to a lawyer...
...professors running the gamut from war hawk to peacenik have continued to sound off since the war began—ranging from retired Brig. Gen. John Reppert, executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, to Lecturer on History and Literature Timothy P. McCarthy ’93. Reppert advocates stronger military action in Iraq, while McCarthy is a vocal opponent...
DETENTION UPHELD. In the case of YASER ESAM HAMDI, 22, a Louisiana-born man captured with Taliban forces in Afghanistan and now held in a Navy brig in Norfolk, Va.; by an appeals court in Richmond. The court ruled that the government can detain a U.S. citizen captured in an overseas battle indefinitely if the military declares him an "enemy combatant...
...June 10, Newman was driving to work when she got a call from a friend at court: Padilla was no longer in New York. In the middle of the night, the Defense Department had removed him from prison and placed him in a private wing of a Navy brig in Charleston, S.C.--with no charge, no access to lawyer or visitors, no warrant and no warning. By making Padilla the first American citizen in the war against terrorism to be held without charges inside the U.S., the government had ignited a debate about whether it has the power to strip...
...litany of constitutional violations, from the right to a speedy trial to the right to counsel to the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits soldiers from engaging in police activity on U.S. soil. The revision also added a few new targets: Commander M.A. Marr--the officer in charge of the brig in South Carolina--Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush...