U.S. Won’t Label Terror Suspects as ‘Combatants’

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/us/politics/14gitmo.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=label%20terror%20suspects&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:33 AM
Subject: re: U.S. Won’t Label Terror Suspects as ‘Combatants’
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  The administration's proposal to continue detentions without charges or trial fails on two counts. Our constitution grants the president no extraordinary war-time powers without a declaration of war from the Congress. Failing such a declaration, only a court can find that they "have substantially supported al Qaeda".

Barry Levine