re: #343 Gang of One

U.S. citizens have still have these rights protected by the U.S. government when last I checked.
These terrorists are not U.S. citizens. They detest our philosophy of laws and rights enough to want to destroy it. They reject our social contract. Fair enough, so we won’t apply it to them.

Actually, everyone on United States territory enjoys those rights, citizen or not.

It’s one of the reasons Gitmo was chosen for detention, rather than, say, Hoboken. It isn’t officially US territory, as I understand it. It’s Cuban soil, under American control, but it is one of the few places on earth where US sovereignty doesn’t exist to the extent of providing extension of the legal rights enjoyed within the US itself, on the grounds of it’s embassies and in a handful of other jurisdictions, like Puerto Rico, which is an unincorporated territory.

But the point is that citizenship isn’t the point.