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RogueOne12/30/2009 12:42:25 pm PST

re: #455 Buck

Anyone arrested in the USA, and territories is given Miranda rights. Gitmo is/was for people picked up in other countries, on a battlefield, and is non-uniformed combatants (as defined by the Geneva convention).

Gitmo has never been used for anyone arrested in the USA.

There are plenty of military facilities where they could have sent him. If the president chose he could have immediately classified him as an enemy combatant and had him held in a military brig. They chose to allow him to be held by civilian authorities.