Being a U.S. Citizen noncombatant detained without charge? That’s a big line
to cross, legally. I’m fairly confident it hasn’t been.
A very quick Google search found me José
Padilla.
According to Wikipedia, during several years of his detainment there were no
charges against him. He was designated as an enemy combatant at the time,
but this seems arbitrary, since he was arrested in an airport, not captured on
the field of battle.
Ohkay… on the other hand, this guy had gone to a terrorist training camp. Classifying him as a terrorist may have been inaccurate, but it wasn’t crazy—the circumstantial evidence was a lot stronger than ‘uses anonymizing software’.
A very quick Google search found me José Padilla. According to Wikipedia, during several years of his detainment there were no charges against him. He was designated as an enemy combatant at the time, but this seems arbitrary, since he was arrested in an airport, not captured on the field of battle.
Ohkay… on the other hand, this guy had gone to a terrorist training camp. Classifying him as a terrorist may have been inaccurate, but it wasn’t crazy—the circumstantial evidence was a lot stronger than ‘uses anonymizing software’.
(btw, upvoted for correcting me)