The Bush Administration Just Got Worse From the Washington Post:
In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects
Those Designated 'Combatants' Lose Legal Protections
The Bush administration is developing a parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects -- U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike -- may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system, lawyers inside and outside the government say.
Secrets courts, secret detentions, all beyond the power of the traditional court system to oversee and restrain. Jesus, this stuff is just insane.
"When you have a long period of time when you're not engaged in a war, people tend to forget, or put in backs of their minds, the necessity for certain types of government action used when we are in danger, when we are facing eyeball to eyeball a serious threat", are the reassuring workds from Ted Olson. Of course some these powers were abused in the Civil War, WWI and WWII and the Cold War, but Olson seems to have forgotten that.
These guys are absolute power mad lunatics.
I think that it was in an earlier post, that I pointed out that as Americans, we never had an obligation to trust our leaders, in fact, the opposite was the case. And yet, in the interview, Ted Olson tells us that we can trust the President. Hasn't this guy ever had a civics course? How about a Freshman level history couse?
"At the end of the day in our constitutional system, someone will have to decide whether that [decision to designate someone an enemy combatant] is a right or just decision," Olson said. "Who will finally decide that? Will it be a judge, or will it be the president of the United States, elected by the people, specifically to perform that function, with the capacity to have the information at his disposal with the assistance of those who work for him?"
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