On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:15:49 -0500, Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 23:37 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 22:20:23 -0500, > > Lyvim Xaphir <knightmerc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > Phil is a United States citizen. As such he would not have been put in > > > Gitmo. Club Gitmo is reserved for non-US combatants; as such they do > > > not fall under the purview of the US Constitution. > > > > Bush claims to be able to declare anyone an emeny combatant and then be > > able have done pretty whatever he wants to you. > > What US citizens have been declared enemy combatants? Jose Padilla. Though he wasn't sent to Gitmo, he was just held without formal charges being filed for several years while being tortured. Eventually he was charged with different crimes than what the government had previously said they could charge him with. At least his case finally got into the court system. (The Bush administration wanted to avoid a definitive ruling in his case and agreed to transfer him when it looked like they might lose.)
