{"id":936,"date":"2003-12-03T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T16:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/abuse-of-power\/"},"modified":"2003-12-03T09:02:09","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T16:02:09","slug":"abuse-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/abuse-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuse of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Wired News | Pentagon Allows Lawyer for U.S.-Born Taliban Suspect\" href=\"http:\/\/wireservice.wired.com\/wired\/story.asp?section=Breaking&amp;storyId=803260&amp;tw=wn_wire_story\">Pentagon Allows Lawyer for U.S.-Born Taliban Suspect<\/a> Reuters<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said on Tuesday it will allow an American-born man captured in Afghanistan two years ago and held at a U.S. Navy jail as &#8221;an enemy combatant&#8221; to have access to a lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>Yaser Esam Hamdi, 22, who is held in Charleston, South Carolina , and has not been charged, will be given access to a lawyer &#8220;as a matter of discretion and military policy&#8221; because interrogators have finished collecting intelligence in questioning him, the Defense Department said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Notice that after violating this American&#8217;s constitutional rights for two full years, the Pentagon still says they don&#8217;t have to &#8216;give&#8217; any of these rights to one of our citizens. This is exactly why the Constitution exists &#8212; to prevent abuses of authority. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjhinton.com\/blogs\/archives\/00000242.htm\">If you read this, does that make you an Enemy Combatant?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[From Judge Diana Gribbon Motz&#8217;s dissent:] As the Framers well understood, <b>the Executive branch must be subjected to checks on its power<\/b> if individual liberties are to be preserved&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive&#8217;s treatment of Hamdi threatens the freedoms we all cherish&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon Allows Lawyer for U.S.-Born Taliban Suspect Reuters The Pentagon said on Tuesday it will allow an American-born man captured in Afghanistan two years ago and held at a U.S. Navy jail as &#8221;an enemy combatant&#8221; to have access to a lawyer. Yaser Esam Hamdi, 22, who is held in Charleston, South Carolina , and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/abuse-of-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Abuse of Power<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}