Soiled Detentions

John McCain and Joe Lieberman have introduced a bill into Congress under the title Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010.

The bill is, I guess, meant to act as a wedgie deterrent threat to individuals who may be considering stepping onto an airplane with a bomb in their underpants, and to other such diaper clad, nonsense spouting individual belligerents nursing grudges against the United States.

The problem with the bill, as Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic points out in a piece titled A Detention Bill You Ought to Read More Carefully, is the language of the bill, as it currently stands, would allow it to be equally utilized against United States citizens and actual terrorists alike.

According to the summary, the bill sets out a comprehensive policy for the detention, interrogation and trial of suspected enemy belligerents who are believed to have engaged in hostilities against the United States by requiring these individuals to be held in military custody, interrogated for their intelligence value and not provided with a Miranda warning.

(There is no distinction between U.S. persons—visa holders or citizens—and non-U.S. persons.)

Be careful out there.

Linked via The Independent Institute.

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