Word: detainer
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...public, so far at least, is going along. Polls show strong support for everything from increased government power to detain legal immigrants--82% are in favor, according to a Gallup survey--to military tribunals. Most seem to agree with the blunt logic of Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch. "Yes, the Administration has been aggressive in using all of the constitutional powers at its disposal," he argues, but it's justified because terrorists "are trying to kill Americans--as many as they possibly...
...action must strike a careful balance between protecting civil liberties and providing the means for law enforcement to identify, apprehend and detain potential terrorists,” Kennedy said in a speech before the Senate last week...
...authorities believe they may be hiding in one of the remaining al-Qaeda strongholds in Afghanistan. But even if they aren't, prosecutors want indictments on the record as soon as possible. If either turns up in another country, local police will then have the legal authority to detain him while the Justice Department builds a case for his extradition...
...accident. And there are no new anthrax victims. Seems like a good time to enjoy a breather, a holiday from seriousness, the seriousness we woke up to on Sept. 11. Hence the righteous fulmination from critics left and right against measures the Bush Administration has put in place to detain, question and try suspected terrorists...
...days immediately after September 11th, for example, Ashcroft issued a decree permitting federal officers to wiretap pretty much anyone for almost any reason, and to detain people for extended periods of time without filing charges. This Tuesday, the Bush administration went to a whole new level when the President signed an emergency order allowing non-citizens suspected of terrorism to be tried in military tribunals...