re: #536 Dark_Falcon

When could no more torture them than we could do so to John Walker Lindh. They are American citizens, and thus in a different legal category than foreign Islamists.

That’s not true. Jose Padilla was held indefinitely as an “enemy combatant” even though he was a U.S. citizen. They can be held as long as we like without any of their U.S. rights because this is wartime and they are terrorists.

A federal appeals court yesterday backed the president’s power to indefinitely detain a U.S. citizen captured on U.S. soil without any criminal charges, holding that such authority is vital during wartime to protect the nation from terrorist attacks.

washingtonpost.com