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OLC Memo: Determination of Enemy Belligerency and Military Detention (re: Jose Padilla)

June 8, 2002 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4544

An OLC memo concluding that “the military has the legal authority to detain [Jose Padilla] as a prisoner captured during an international armed conflict,” and that the Posse Comitatus Act poses no bar.

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