Thu 17 Jul 2008
Al-Marri and the power to imprison U.S. citizens without charges
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Glenn Greenwald Salon 7/16/08
Of all the constitutionally threatening and extremist powers the Bush administration has asserted over the last seven years, the most radical — and the most dangerous — has been its claim that the President has the power to arrest U.S. citizens and legal residents inside the U.S., and imprison them indefinitely in a military prison, without charging them with any crime (more…)