RIGHTS FOR "ENEMY COMBATANTS"?
Are such citizens entitled to constitutional protections?
In the seven months that Jose Padilla has been locked up in a Navy brig, the federal government has provided pages of alleged evidence that the former Chicago gang leader was scheming to explode a radioactive "dirty bomb."
Six pages, to be exact.
The number of times that Padilla's court-appointed lawyers have been allowed to see him falls short of even that modest figure. Since June 9, when President Bush declared Padilla an enemy combatant in the war on terrorism, lawyers Donna Newman and Andrew Patel have had no meetings with their client.
(Philadelphia Inquirer, Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)
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