They're getting habeus corpus. They're just getting it on a war timeline, instead of the timeline afforded our citizens.
I never said Bush was a conservative. Never. I supported the war in Iraq, but didn't recognize that as a "conservative" decision.
How come you guys call your shrieking socialists "centrists" now? That's sort of funny. We're back to changing the definition of things to suit the illegality of your actions, per usual.
José Padilla is a United States citizen convicted of aiding terrorists. Padilla was arrested in Chicago on May 8, 2002, and was detained as a material witness until June 9, 2002, when President Bush designated him an illegal enemy combatant and transferred him to a military prison, arguing that he was thereby not entitled to trial in civilian courts. Padilla was held for three-and-a-half years as an "enemy combatant" after his arrest in 2002 on suspicion of plotting a radioactive "dirty bomb" attack. That charge was dropped and his case was moved to a civilian court after pressure from civil liberties groups.