Stockade justice: why we don't need military tribunals. (Gazette).
American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Halperin, Morton
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EVEN BEFORE THE INK WAS dry on the antiterrorism bill, the Bush administration began relying less on powers granted it by a cowed Congress and more on assertions of inherent presidential authority. Several new actions--the establishment of military tribunals, the monitoring of lawyer-client conversations, the interrogation of several thousand Middle Eastern men, and the continued detention of hundreds of aliens--have violated the most basic principles of the American system of justice.
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