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No laughing matter July 23, 2008 @ 10:35 a.m.
This sounds so outrageous, it seems like a joke or something out of "The Onion."
Attorney General Michael Mukasey is demanding that Congress issue a new declaration of war so that anyone that this president or the next one declares to be an "enemy combatant" can be held indefinitely without a trial.
The new declaration of war would make the entire globe � including the United States itself � a �battlefield� where the president decides who will be locked up forever.
With only five weeks left in the Congressional schedule and only six months left in the Bush presidency, Mukasey�s ridiculous power grab should be laughed out of town. But given this Congress� track record, the Mukasey proposal is no laughing matter. Especially because it also includes a cover-up of the Bush administration�s systemic torture and abuse of detainees.
We can�t take for granted that Congress will reject this outrageous proposal. We have to meet it with an immediate wall of protest that says to Congress: �Don�t you dare.�
I just told my members of Congress to reject the dangerous Bush/Mukasey plan. You can do the same thing here:
http://action.aclu.org/mukasey
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