FC: Bush weighs military tribunals for suspected terrorists

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Sun Sep 23 2001 - 21:40:37 PDT

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    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/bprivacy.html
    >Now the Bush Administration is considering the establishment of
    >special military tribunals. Suspected terrorists could be tried
    >without the ordinary legal constraints of American justice. During
    >World War II, German saboteurs were tried secretly that way ...
    
    (This would mean suspending habeas corpus, right?)
    
    -Declan
    
    
    ----- Forwarded message from Harmon Seaver <hseaverat_private> -----
    
    From: Harmon Seaver <hseaverat_private>
    Subject: Bush's special military tribunals?
    To: cpunks <cypherpunksat_private>
    Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:15:34 -0500
    
         Check out
    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/bprivacy.html --
    anyother references anywhere to Bush's plan for special
    military tribunals with no constitutional protections for
    the defendant? WTF?
    
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    Harmon Seaver, MLIS
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