Should We or Shouldn't We Be Safe Then Sorry

Friday the Bush administration argued that when congress authorized military actions against the September 11, 2001 terrorist it also gave the president the power to detain people who never had terrorist affiliations. A good example of this is Huzaifa Parhat a member of the Uighurs who has been detained for up to 6 years. Huzaifa was captured in Afghanistan but is now in Guantanamo Bay as a suspected terrorist. When the only connection Huzaifa has to terrorism is with the East Turkistan Islamic movement a militant group that demands separation from china the United States named it a terrorist group in 2002 also the military says Huzaifa has trained in the ETIM camp to prepare to fight against China. Also Huzaifa says that he considers China the enemy and not the United States. On Friday Huzaifa became the person to challenge the label on him his lawyers say its government hasn’t even met its own relatively low standard to hold him as an enemy combatant and the Justice Department says that Huzaifa never fought against the US and says there is no evidence showing that he was planned to do so yet government attorneys say he can be held under the law authorizing military force against anyone who “planned authorized committed or aided the terrorist attacks.” The government acknowledges it has little to no