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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
To the contrary, I don't think anyone questions Congress's power to deny money to the Executive Branch. That was what Iran-Contra was all about, e.g.
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, Fred Korematsu was a US citizen, not a foreign national captured on a battlefield. Japanese (and German and Italian) POWs were held in camps until the war ended. There are no easy answers here, and Congress has frustrated some of the hard answers.
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I didn't say Congress didn't have the power to deny funds to the Executive. I just don't think they have the power to micromanage.
Most of the detainees in Gitmo were not taken on a foreign battlefield. They were grabbed from their homes. And it is irrelevant to me that they aren't US citizens. They still have the same inalienable rights as we do. After all, they were endowed by the Creator, remember?
And you're wrong, Ty. There is an easy answer. We took people from their homes, transported them across an ocean without any legal basis for doing so, and, despite our conclusion we cannot try them, we are continuing to hold them because they don't like us. The answer is easy. We violated everything America stands for in taking them. The only thing to do is to let them go.
