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Re:A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But... by parenthephobia on Sunday December 03, 2017 @07:53AM (#15837374)
The normal rules of war always apply. Famously, that's the point of them. A state isn't allowed to ignore the rules of war if it finds them inconvenient.

The Geneva Conventions are quite clear that PoWs are allowed to communicate with the outside world, subject to militarily necessary censorship. If charged with a crime, they have the right to choose their legal representative.

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Re:A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But... by JshWright on Sunday December 03, 2017 @08:34AM (#15837492)
> A state isn't allowed to ignore the rules of war if it finds them inconvenient.

Actually, that's exactly what the government is doing. The convenient thing about the "War on Terror" is that "Terror" isn't a nation, so, by the government's logic, they get to call them "enemy combatants" not "prisoners of war" (avoiding all that pesky Geneva Convention business).

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Re:A Secretly Detained American Has Asked for a Lawyer – But... by syshum on Sunday December 03, 2017 @09:23AM (#15837659)
>The convenient thing about the "War on Terror" is that "Terror" isn't a nation

The convenient thing about the "War on Terror" is that like the "War on Drugs" it is not an actual war at all...

This allows unethical people to justify all manner of abuse, and inhuman treatment of Individuals

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