Hazzy Wrote:My friend and I are in disagreement. He's racist and hate Obama*, while I'm liberal. My history teacher said there's a law, Habeas corpus I think, which states you cannot be detained by law enforcement people for more than 48 hours without evidence that you did something. ie, There's a school shooting, you're a wittness, they hold you for 36 hours to question you/see if you did it. While there's been people in Guantamano(sp?) Bay for around 7 years with no such evidence. My Friend says Bush passed some kind of law that lets him do that with terrorist. Iunno, Google showed nothing.
Anyone here know more about this?
*No, he's not racist. Just a joke. D;
Because they aren't American citizens, and are arrested by military personnel in non-American territory, they aren't necessarily subject to American law. As far as law, they are regarded more as POWs. That aside, there may be more evidence than you know, a lot of what the people may be detained for may be highly classified information that even the president may not have access to. The military is in a bind a lot of times because they can't exactly prove they legitly did something without revealing information they aren't supposed to have (if that is the case, not saying it always is). Doesn't matter anyway, as Obama is shutting it down (which pissed off a friend who had orders to Gitmo as an interrogator. He is now going to Bahrain).
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Please pardon the obscure verbage, I have to be really careful how I word things due to the nature of my job.