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Fourth Circuit bitchslap
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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think enemy combatants are by definition not US citizens or US residents, no?
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That is incorrect. The one has nothing to do with the other, I believe.
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So they don't really have rights, especially when they are being held in the no-man's-land that is Guantanemo (not US soil, not foreign soil).
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The notion that they have no rights has more to do with this notion that the President has unbridled powers under Article II that are not limited in any way by pesky details like the Fifth Amendment.
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