Olbermann: The Day Habeas Corpus Died

135 years to the day after the last American President suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. The legislation allows Bush or Rumsfeld to declare anyone, US citizen or not, an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law.

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