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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by StavrosK on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:15AM (#17565914)
> As I recall, he sort of was a terrorist though?

Does that matter a single iota? Does the US legal system say somewhere you can hold people in prison with no rights because "they sort of are a terrorist, though"?

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Re:A Citizen Is Suing the US for Putting Him on the 'Kill List' by trothamel on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:55AM (#17566261)
The US constitution has always given the President powers as commander in chief, to detain enemy combatants as prisoners of war. It's not the same thing as criminal punishment, but the POW camps that have been set up in every war are constitutional.
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