Bush Signs Bill on Terror Prosecution (Torture law!)

[NashVegas]

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/topstories/index.ssf?/base/politics-8/116113134821810.xml&storylist=topstories

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some of the most notorious names in the war on terror are headed toward prosecution after President Bush signed a law Tuesday authorizing military trials of terrorism suspects.

[C_U_L8R]

1. We'll see the Republicans at Nuremberg

and I bet they'll still be blaming Clinton

[NashVegas]

2. Think the torture bill sucks? Wait for the signing statement

http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1472

We got a foretaste of what’s in store during Tony Snow’s press briefing today. When asked whether the president would, as the legislation requires, publish executive orders describing his interpretation of the Geneva Conventions, Snow said the legislation doesn’t require such publication but only authorizes it. The White House view, in other words, is that under the legislation the president can feel free to explain himself but needn’t do so unless he wants to.

[Nolo_Contendre]

3. Notorious Names In Terror

Cheney, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Perle, Feith, Woolsey, Abrams, Bolton, Libby, and co-conspirators.

[Ninja Jordan]

4. Does this apply to US citizens?

[OKthatsIT]

5. yes. it means anyone could be suspect...

he has the legal right to disappear you.

[Ninja Jordan]

6. Where are you reading that textually?

Sec. 948c. Persons subject to military commissions

Any alien unlawful enemy combatant is subject to trial by military commission under this chapter.

...and

Sec. 948a. Definitions

(5) ALIEN- The term 'alien' means an individual who is not a citizen of the United States.