The following letter appeared in the New York Times this weekend. It’s author, a man named Lakhdar Boumediene, was held in U.S. military custody for seven years without an opportunity to defend himself in court, or for that matter, even being told why he’d been kidnapped from his workplace by armed men and shipped off […]
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Former Gitmo prisoner Lakhdar Boumediene provides a glimpse of what the NDAA might mean for American citizens
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged Algeria, Belkacem Bensayah, Bill of Rights, Bosnia, Boumediene v. Bush, due process, GITMO, GTMO, Guantánamo Bay, hunger strikes, Lakhdar Boumediene, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, NDAA, Richard J. Leon, Sarajevo, Supreme Court, wrongly accused 34 Comments