Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on America’s continuing policies to deny human beings the right of appeal to terrorism charges. Obama equals Bush:
So congratulations to the United States and… Barack… Obama for winning the power to abduct people anywhere in the world and then imprison them for as long as they want with no judicial review of any kind.
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This is what Barack… Obama has done to the habeas clause of the Constitution:… … if you are in Thailand… (as one of the petitioners in this case was)… and the U.S. abducts you and flies you to Guantanamo, then you have the right to have a federal court determine if there is sufficient evidence to hold you. … If, however, President Obama orders that you be taken from Thailand to Bagram rather than to Guantanamo, then you will have no rights of any kind, and he can order you detained there indefinitely without any right to a habeas review.