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October 18, 2006
President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006
Dear Friends,
I think all of us need to watch this video. Nothing, in my mind, could be more important at the moment...
Marianne
Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President suspended habeus corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At it's worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone -- US citizen or not -- an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the founding fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed today with the stroke of a pen.
George Washington University Constitutional Law professor, Jonathan Turley, joins Keith to talk about the law that Senator Feingold said would be seen as "a stain on our nations history."
Posted by mwblog at October 18, 2006 4:48 PM
