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when is a tinfoil hat not a tinfoil hat? right now.

from the ny times (emphasis mine):

The measure would broaden the definition of enemy combatants beyond the traditional definition used in wartime, to include noncitizens living legally in the United States as well as those in foreign countries and anyone determined to be an enemy combatant under criteria defined by the president or secretary of defense.

It would strip at Guantánamo detainees of the habeas right to challenge their detention in court, relying instead on procedures known as combatant status review trials. Those trials have looser rules of evidence than the courts.

It would allow of evidence seized in this country or abroad without a search warrant to be admitted in trials.

The bill would also bar the admission of evidence obtained by cruel and inhuman treatment, except any obtained before Dec. 30, 2005, when Congress enacted the Detainee Treatment Act, that a judge declares reliable and probative.

"Senate Approves Broad New Rules to Try Detainees" 9/29/06

see also "We are now officially living in a dictatorship": http://scienceblogs.com/clock/2006/09/we_are_now_officially_living_i.php