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Thanks for the additional information. I agree with you that the comparison between Fred Korematsu and Jose Padilla is greatly flawed because Korematsu was accused of nothing more than not wanting to be locked up as an innocent citizen.

But your comment:

Padilla is a suspect, with significant evidence to support that, of a violation of the law of war.

Is not entirely accurate. Nobody has vetted the “significant evidence” of Padilla’s crimes. Not his lawyer (he doesn’t have one), not independent lawyers, not the press, not the people. Only the government has checked out this information and after a review, the government concluded that the government was correct.

I have a problem with that, just as I would if a Clinton was president and Janet Reno was Attorney General.

It sets an awful precedent to keep him locked up without charges. If Padilla has committed crimes serious enough to rescind his citizenship, the government should have no trouble getting a grand jury to charge him with a crime.

[Congressman Billybob]

The Law of War is clear. Trials do not have to be in public -- as do all other US trials, per the Constitution. And, no one is "revoking" Padilla's citizenship.

Bruno Haupt, born in Chicago, was still an American citizen when he was convicted of sabotage after training in Germany and reentering the US from a submarine, with supplies and maps to blow up US facilities. Padilla will still be an American citizen, if an when he is convicted in a secret miliitary tribunal of similar acts.

Military secrecy is a necessary part of conducting warfare, and the Supreme Court has approved that, in this kind of case. I agree with you that the dangers of having powers like that in the hands of a "President Hillary!" are enormous. We just have to be on guard as long as she is alive and breathing, to prevent that from happening.

John / Billybob