The National-Security Branch Rules the Roost
If there is anything that confirms that the national-security branch of the federal government rules the roost within the federal governmental structure, it is the Pentagon/CIA torture and indefinite-detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That facility stands as an ongoing testament to the overarching power of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA within America’s governmental structure and the deference to their authority displayed by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government.
Imagine that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) does to drug-war suspects what the Pentagon and the CIA have done in Cuba with terrorism suspects. The DEA establishes a prison camp in Mexico in which it keeps drug-war defendants in custody for as long as the DEA wants. No trial and no due process. The DEA announces that if it ever does allow trials to be held, they will be my DEA tribunals rather than by juries composed of citizens chosen at random. The DEA’s drug-war prisoners are often subjected to brutal torture in order to secure confessions and to acquire information that could lead to the arrest of more drug-war defendants.
There is no doubt whatsoever that the Supreme Court (and the lower federal courts) would declare the DEA’s conduct in violation of the U.S. Constitution and especially the Bill of Rights. The Courts would immediately order the DEA to cease and desist its unlawful and unconstitutional actions. The courts would order the DEA to immediately shut down its torture and indefinite-detention camp and bring all drug-war defendants back to the United States for prosecution in America’s criminal-justice system established under the Constitution.
Not so, however, with the national-security establishment’s torture and indefinite-detention camp in Cuba. The Supreme Cour
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