Via Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic's blog:
Izzit Just Me who "imagined" Prez. Shamwow said he'd restore the rights the Busheviks stripped away? If it was, then I got no complaint.
A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully
MAR 5 2010, 3:40 PM ET
Why is the national security community treating the "Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010," introduced by Sens. John McCain and Joseph Lieberman on Thursday as a standard proposal, as a simple response to the administration's choices in the aftermath of the Christmas Day bombing attempt?
A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity.
Read the bill here (PDF), and then read the summarized points after the jump.
According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.
(There is no distinction between U.S. persons--visa holders or citizens--and non-U.S. persons.)
It would require these "belligerents" to be coded as "high-value detainee[s]" to be held in military custody and interrogated for their intelligence value by a High-Value Detainee Interrogation Team established by the president. (The H.I.G., of course, was established to bring a sophisticated interrogation capacity to the federal justice system.)
But if not, somelucy pliss got some 'splainin' to do...
(CYCBI = "Change You Can Believe In")
Make that "Chump ¢hange U Can beLIEve In".
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