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To: TimF who wrote (125026)	7/13/2005 2:09:47 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 793883

Everybody pretty much agrees that Al Qaeda isn't subject to any international treaty, so we have to figure out what to do with them. This is a given. Kholt and I were just basically batting around ideas about what to do with them. The point I was trying to make, eons ago, and this horse has been beaten to death, is that the US military, which has many, many lawyers, and does things "by the book", will have to write a new book for these birds, but the rules will still be rules, and if the rules are broken there have to be consequences, and there has to be someone neutral to go to in order to ensure that the rules are followed. The right of habeas corpus exists even in times of war. The Civil War suspension was later deemed unconstitutional. The argument that foreigners don't have the right to habeas corpus even when they are in US custody is one that I don't believe is going to fly.

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