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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I think it's crazy -- and I think the founding fathers would have thought it crazy -- to empower the executive branch to seize and hold innocent people indefinitely without any sort of judicial review. The writ of habeas corpus exists for this purpose. The framers understood the dangers of unbridled power.
And again -- I'm not arguing about what the law is. I'm arguing about what it should be.
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Then why didn't they place such rights in the constitution or the bill of rights? Can you imagine if we gave the writ of habeas corpus during WWII to all enemy combatants? We would still be hearing the cases. We sure as hell didn't give it to enemy combatants during the Revolutionary War or the War of 1812.
Prior to Gerald Ford the executive branch could order the CIA to kill people. Let alone hold them indefinitely.
As long as these groups are at "war" with the US we can hold on to their people indefinitely.
