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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
So, you're now saying that the Administration did not believe in the positions the DOJ took in the Hamdi and Padilla cases (and others)?
S_A_M
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We already went through these. One of these guys was caught overseas fighting for the enemy. He was shooting at American soldiers and was captured in a combat zone. The other guy was in foreign countrys conspiring with the enemy and then was apprehended right when he entered the US.
If the DOJ has one their cases that doesn't mean that the U.S. government could pick up Slave and I right off the street. It means that if I go to a foreign country and start shooting at American soldiers in foreign countrys then I can't expect the Bill of Rights to bail me out. In addition, if I go to Pakistan and conspire with Al Queda operatives (there by joining an organization whose intent is to kill US citizens), then I might get snathced up when trying to reenter the US and thrown in Gitmo. I can certainly live with that. In fact I think that is a good idea.
In any case, their cases were heard by our court system. And if either of them still has US citizenship our system is screwed up. And if they weren't waterboarded or other serious interrogations used on them to find out more information, then our system is screwed up.
