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Published on: 3/27/2007
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In December 2002, before the Washington Post drank the Stepford Kool-Aid, it published a riveting piece, "In Terror War, 2nd Track for Suspects," in which writer Charles Lane exposed Bush's executive power grab to strip courts of all oversight or authority.Lane sounded the alarm on the "parallel legal system in which terrorism suspects,U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike,may be investigated, jailed, interrogated, tried and punished without legal protections guaranteed by the ordinary system."
Lane went on to say the administration, with approval of the "special" Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, could "order a clandestine search of a U.S. citizen's home and, based on the information gathered, secretly declare the citizen an enemy combatant, to be held indefinitely at a U.S. military base."