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...After all, that's what it has been allowed to do with people like Yaser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured while fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan (he was eventually deported to Saudi Arabia in exchange for renouncing his citizenship). Al-Marri isn't even a citizen, and he was caught allegedly pursuing terrorism within the U.S. Isn't he exactly the kind of guy that the Administration should be allowed to declare an enemy combatant and hold in a military brig...
...press conference last month after the NSA program came to light, Gonzales cited last year's Supreme Court ruling in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld as another implicit sanction of the presidential power to okay wiretaps. In that decision, the Justices upheld the detention, without charges, of U.S. citizen Yaser Esam Hamdi, whose designation as an enemy combatant was challenged by his lawyers. The court ruled that his detention was lawful because the "necessary force" provisions of the Sept. 14 resolution gave the President the power to engage in all "fundamental incidents" of war. "Even though signals intelligence is not mentioned...
...Yaser Esam Hamdi November 2001 A Louisiana-born Saudi captured in Afghanistan with Taliban fighters, he was labeled an enemy combatant The Supreme Court ruled last June that Hamdi had the right to challenge his status. After talks, the government agreed to release him in Saudi Arabia if he renounced his U.S. citizenship...
...American-born Taliban, Yaser Esam Hamdi, was set to be released last week after more than two years in a U.S. naval brig, another one, John Walker Lindh, above, remains in a California prison. But he may soon be on the witness stand, testifying for the prosecution in the Guantánamo Bay military trials. Lindh, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to aiding the Taliban, is cooperating in the Gitmo trials in an effort to reduce his 20-year sentence, according to a government official familiar with the case. Considering his original indictment, Lindh may have some significant information to share...
Those are just some of the questions raised by the Guantanamo ruling, and by another one concerning Yaser Esam Hamdi, a U.S. citizen imprisoned since his capture in Afghanistan in 2001. In that case, the court decided that while the President can deem American citizens "enemy combatants," he cannot deny them access to a lawyer and a chance to answer the charges before a "neutral decision maker." The Supreme Court left it to the Bush Administration and lower courts to devise a way for Hamdi to challenge his detention...