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Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by obstacle1 on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @09:36PM (#5865906)
>Padilla was ultimatey tried and convicted in a federal civilian court

You're OK with indefinitely detaining American citizens until the government slaps some charges on & convicts? Spooky.

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Re:A.C.L.U. Files Suit Over Phone Surveillance Program by rayiner on Tuesday June 11, 2013 @10:02PM (#5866019)
I'm not "OK" with what happened to Padilla, but the contention was that the executive branch "has been given the power" to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens, and that assertion is false.

Read the history of the Padilla case: http://www.nyclu.org/case/padilla-v-bushhamdi-v-rumsfeld-cha....

See also: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/what-supreme-cou....

There was a legal wrangling over the scope of the President's detention powers, and Padilla's appeal to the Supreme Court was rendered moot by the government deciding to charge him. No U.S. citizen has been indefinitely detained since.

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