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Innocent to suffer.(Letter to the editor)
President George Walker Bush got his wish. The War Commissions Act of 2006 was signed into law October 17, 2006 ("Are YOU the Enemy?," October 30 issue). Barring the Patriot Act, the Congress has never passed a bill that has so eroded our constitutional rights.
This is just some of what the bill allows: broad definition of enemy combatant, no right to habeus corpus, arbitrary detention, unrestricted torture of detainees, all past acts of torture and abuse exonerated, military control over sentencing of detainees, use of coerced statements, reversal of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, circumvention of Article 3 of the U.S. ...
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