Ex-generals: Review Bush's detention authority

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: AP

They urge Supreme Court to review case of suspected enemy combatant

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - Former generals and U.S. Justice Department officials filed
briefs Thursday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Bush administration's
authority to indefinitely detain the only suspected enemy combatant held on U.S. soil.

"This unprecedented expansion of executive authority within the borders of the United
States is not only at odds with more than 200 years of history, but it is wholly unnecessary,"
argued former judges and officials, including former U.S. Attorney General janet Reno
and former FBI Director William Sessions. "The federal govt is eminently capable of both
protecting our nation's security and safeguarding our proud tradition of civil liberties."

That brief and others from retired military officers, professors and nonprofit organizations
were filed in support of a request by Ali al-Marri, a native of Qatar held in solitary
confinement at a U.S. Navy prison near Charleston since 2003. he has not been charged.

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The Gulag Bushapelago.

[WhiteTara]

1. I feel a ground swell

they won't escape.

[Nambe]

2. Why do this now? Oh shivers, there´s a new Sheriff comin go town.

This may be out of context with this article, but watch the conservatives scramble to take away presidential powers in ´09.

[snot]

3. let's hope -- a bad sign if they don't.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. K&R. nt

[Judi Lynn]

5. Unexpected good news. Thanks. K & R.

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[saigon68]

7. K & R

[barbtries]

8. five years with no charges

who would have thought that this scenario would play on american soil, ever?

the day bush is gone cannot come soon enough. never mind that it should have come much much sooner.

[bertman]

9. I know this will make me sound like a vindictive asshole, but here goes: It would not

bother me in the least if Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell, Gonzalez, Libby, Lott, Boehner, Mitchell, Mukasey, Perle, Wolfowitz and all the other fascist assholes including Pelosi and Reid were put into a prison for five years without legal representation or visitation from family or friends. After the five years of living like Ali al-Marri, they would then be given access to public defenders and maybe allowed visits from family and friends.

In my estimation, even that would be LETTING THEM OFF LIGHT.