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Article: Wrong on habeas corpus; Gonzales misstates the facts.(OPED)(SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2007
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Byline: Nat Hentoff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Considering the state of the world, and the divisiveness in this nation, I am seldom startled these days by news from Washington. But an exception was the appearance of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales at a Jan. 18 hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee in which he stated: "There is no express grant of habeas (corpus) in the Constitution .. The Constitution doesn't say every individual in the United States is hereby guaranteed or assured the right of habeas corpus .. there's (only) a prohibition against taking it away."
This is an astonishing dismissal by our chief law enforcement officer of the oldest ...