On 12/15/2011 8:27 AM, Home Guy wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...etention-obama

Americans face Guantánamo detention after Obama climbdown

Defence funding bill allows American citizens to be arrested as
terrorists on home soil and held indefinitely without trial

Chris McGreal in Washington
Thursday 15 December 2011 04.34 GMT

Barack Obama has abandoned a commitment to veto a new security law that
allows the military to indefinitely detain without trial American
terrorism suspects arrested on US soil who could then be shipped to
Guantánamo Bay.


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I'm not a lawyer, much less a Constitutional lawyer, but doesn't the 6th
Amendment provide the right to a speedy trial? Also, there may be a
violation of Constitutional habeas corpus protections. I predict legal
challenges if this legislation is enacted.