IP: Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

[David Farber <dfarber@earthlink.net>]

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From: Adam Peake <ajp@glocom.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:31:10 
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: for IP?  Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-turley14aug14.story>

COMMENTARY

Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision

Attorney general shows himself as a menace to liberty.
By JONATHAN TURLEY
Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional law at George 
Washington University.

August 14 2002

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. 
citizens he deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely 
being a political embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.

Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would 
allow him to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and 
summarily strip them of their constitutional rights and access to the 
courts by declaring them enemy combatants.

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