FC: Bush weighs military tribunals for suspected terrorists

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/bprivacy.html
> Now the Bush Administration is considering the establishment of
> special military tribunals. Suspected terrorists could be tried
> without the ordinary legal constraints of American justice. During
> World War II, German saboteurs were tried secretly that way ...

(This would mean suspending habeas corpus, right?)

-Declan


----- Forwarded message from Harmon Seaver <hseaver () cybershamanix com> -----

From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver () cybershamanix com>
Subject: Bush's special military tribunals?
To: cpunks <cypherpunks () lne com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 10:15:34 -0500

     Check out
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010924/bprivacy.html --
anyother references anywhere to Bush's plan for special
military tribunals with no constitutional protections for
the defendant? WTF?

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