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The requirement to detain a person in military custody under this section does not extend to citizens of the United States..
The naive , the gullible and zombified never cease to amaze me:
The Bush Administration's Torture of U.S. Citizen Jose Padilla
by Glenn Greenwald
The Bush administration's May, 2002 lawless detention of U.S. citizen Jose Padilla on U.S. soil was, as I recounted in my book, the first incident which really prompted me to begin concluding that things were going terribly awry in our country. The administration declared Padilla an "enemy combatant," put him in a military prison, and refused to charge him with any crime or even allow him access to a lawyer or anyone else. He stayed in a black hole, kept by his own government, for the next three-a-half-years with no charges of any kind ever asserted against him and with the administration insisting on the right to detain him (and any other American citizen) indefinitely all based solely on the secret, unchallengeable say-so of the President that he was an "enemy combatant."
To this day, I have trouble believing that we have a Government that claims this power against American citizens and has exercised that power and aggressively defended it and even more trouble believing that there are so many blindly loyal followers of that government who defend that conduct. The outrage that it provokes when thinking about it has not diminished even a small amount and does not diminish no matter how many times one reads, writes or speaks about it. It is as profound a betrayal of the most core American political principles as one can fathom. "
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