FC: Ashcroft's plan for detention camps for "enemy" U.S. citizens

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 04:41:58 PDT

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    From: Amos Satterlee <asatterleeat_private>
    To: "'declanat_private'" <declanat_private>
    Subject: Ashcroft detention camps
    Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:08:20 -0400
    
    Declan:
    
    This one sounds too bizarre to be true if it weren't from/about Ashcroft.
    TIPS is the first shoe, detention camps without due process is the other.
    
    http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.story
    
    Amos
    
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    http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-turley14aug14.story
    
        By JONATHAN TURLEY, Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional
        law at George Washington University.
    
        Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S.
        citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely
        being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.
        Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would
        allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and
        summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the
        courts by declaring them enemy combatants.
        The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings
        and reconsideration of Ashcroft's fitness for this important office.
        Whereas Al Qaeda is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft
        has become a clear and present threat to our liberties.
        The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for Ashcroft's small
        inner circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see
        whether this vision could become a reality. The cases of Jose Padilla
        and Yaser Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held
        without charges and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority
        of the government.
        [...]
    
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