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[Occhidiangela]

It would permit the president to detain indefinitely—even for life—any alien, whether in the United States or abroad, whether a foreign resident or a lawful permanent resident, without any meaningful opportunity for the alien to challenge his detention. The administration would not even need to assert, much less prove, that the alien was an enemy combatant; it would suffice that the alien was "awaiting [a] determination" on that issue. In other words, the bill would tell the millions of legal immigrants living in America, participating in American families, working for American businesses, and paying American taxes, that our government may at any minute pick them up and detain them indefinitely without charge, and without any access to the courts or even to military tribunals, unless and until the government determines that they are not enemy combatants.

Works for me. THese people don't exist in a vacuum. These resident aliens tend to have friends and families who can bring a considerable pressure/publicity to such "abductions" and expose them as missing.

No matter the language of the law, there is a way to fight this, and it isn't a free lunch.

Face it, Thecla, there are still spies and agnents in America, working for other powers than America, just as there were Russian spies here during the Cold War. I see no reason to give such agents, if they are actually linked to terrorist organizations whose aims are no secret, any special loophole to hide behind.

Occhi