“On June 11, 2007, in Al-Marri v. Wright, the Fourth Circuit ruled that the President could not declare civilians present in the U.S. to be ‘enemy combatants,’ nor could they be held by the military indefinitely. The Court held that ‘[t]o sanction such presidential authority to order the military to seize and indefinitely detain civilians, even if the president calls them *enemy combatants,* would have disastrous consequences for the Constitution–and the country… We refuse to recognize a claim to power that would so alter the constitutional foundations of our republic.’ ”
– M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration, Page 133