After Terror, a Secret Rewriting of Military Law

[freedomburns]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/international/worldspecial2/24gitmo.html?ex=1256270400&en=f44aff040a0217ce&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

By TIM GOLDEN

Published: October 24, 2004


ASHINGTON - In early November 2001, with Americans still staggered by the Sept. 11 attacks, a small group of White House officials worked in great secrecy to devise a new system of justice for the new war they had declared on terrorism.

Determined to deal aggressively with the terrorists they expected to capture, the officials bypassed the federal courts and their constitutional guarantees, giving the military the authority to detain foreign suspects indefinitely and prosecute them in tribunals not used since World War II.

The plan was considered so sensitive that senior White House officials kept its final details hidden from the president's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and the secretary of state, Colin L. Powell, officials said. It was so urgent, some of those involved said, that they hardly thought of consulting Congress.


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[shankbear]

These animals are not police, law enforcement detainees.  They are terrorists in a war on terror.  They enjoy limited rights at best.  A cage, meals, a crapper and a tape recorded mullah...that's plenty.

[James46]

I agree with Shankbear.  What has happened to the Democratic party?  They no longer represent mainstream America or any America I know of.  This strategy will bring difficult times to a fine party.  And then the Republicans will dominate for the next 50 years.  And terrorists will be handled properly--as sick people who no longer can hear the truth about anything and act as irrational, rabied animals.  Sort of like a certain party has in current election!

[J. J.]

The term "foreign suspects" says it all.  Where does anybody get even the remotest idea that the US Constitution applies in other countries?

[freedomburns]

The people who think that it is ok to treat any human being in an inhumane way are on the pathway to becoming pure evil, as evil as the terrorists are.  If we lose our morality, we have sunk to their level and we invite our enemies to treat us as we treat them.

freedomburns 

[A18]

Nothing inhumane about it

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

Nothing inhumane about it

Cool, so John Kerry can declare you an enemy combatant after he wins?

[A18]

I'm not a "foreign suspect." After he loses in a landslide, he can go to hell

[Alcon]

I'm not a "foreign suspect." After he loses in a landslide, he can go to hell

My Jesus can beat up your Jesus.