Posted by
Always To The Right on Tuesday, June 02, 2009 9:08:35 PM
The novelty over the last few years has come from the federal
judiciary. The Constitution gives them no role in waging war,
especially abroad; it leaves the declaration of war to Congress and the
management of it to the executive branch. Asserting a role in the
explicitly military role of assessing prisoners captured on a
battlefield or in intelligence operations not only creates an untenable
tension between military/intelligence procedures, it also arrogantly
declares a jurisdiction outside of the boundaries of the US.