Unlawful Logic By Peter Wehner

Andrew Sullivan criticizes a piece I wrote for National Review Online, as well as a blog post written by Rich Lowry. Here are several points in response.

1. The Supreme Court’s decision in Boumediene v. Bush was deeply problematic in part because it was a power grab by the Court. It manufactured a Constitutional right for foreign terrorism suspects held outside the United States. Indeed, we are bestowing on unlawful enemy combatants rights that have never before been extended to prisoners of war, who are (unlike terrorists) abiding by international norms.

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