Patrick Leahy actually said...

The longest serving member of this Committee, Senator Edward Kennedy, half a dozen or a dozen times was told he could not board a flight.

Leahy recounts Kennedy's repeated issues with being on a watch list.

03/03/2009

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I believe that the most important purpose of our Constitution is to place restrictions on the ability of the Government to interfere with ou...

This picks up right where the Non-Detention Act of 1971 leaves off.

[The Government] has made clear, however, that, for purposes of this case, the `enemy combatant' that it is seeking to detain is an individu...

So the time is really now to end the legal ambiguity and state clearly once and for all that the AUMF or other authorities do not authorize ...