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Article: House Homeland Security Subcommittee May Take up Civil Liberties Issues.
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- December 23, 2003
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By Paul B. Johnson, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 23--Rep. Howard Coble said his House subcommittee on homeland security may take up issues on civil liberties and security raised last week in two court decisions that went against the government.
Two federal appeals courts, in separate cases, ruled Thursday that the U.S. military cannot indefinitely hold prisoners without access to lawyers or the American court system. One case involved 660 enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while the other involved Jose Padilla, an American citizen seized in May 2002 in Chicago in an alleged plot to detonate ...