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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: JDN who wrote (373365)3/18/2003 12:40:12 PM
From: Kevin Rose  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
"Most shocking was that the bill suspended what was known in the law as habeas corpus—which gave anyone detained on American soil the right to demand a court hearing to challenge the authority of those holding them. Lincoln had suspended habeas corpus for a time during the Civil War. Now Ashcroft was proposing that it just plain be eliminated during this undefined emergency that had no designated end date. What was going on at Justice, the conservative Republican from Wisconsin wondered. (Ashcroft says he cannot “reconstruct with any accuracy” whether the suspension of habeas corpus was proposed. Sensenbrenner’s recollection, as well as that of two White House officials who saw the draft, seems credible.)"

The proposal was suspension of habeas corpus, period. Arrest and hold suspects for any amount of time, without bringing them before a judge or charging them with a crime.

And afterward, Ashcroft claimed he doesn't remember. He is either a liar, or incompetent. Probably both.

This chapter will go down in infamy in American legal history.

Yes, 9/12 was scary. But, I tremble to think how close we were to ripping up the Constitution. THAT is exactly what the terrorists were after; to destroy our freedoms and our Democratic way of life.
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