“After 9/11, President George W. Bush turned to Civil War precedents to create military tribunals for trying alleged ‘terrorists.’ But in applying those draconian rules to a worldwide battlefield, he created the nightmarish potential for a global totalitarianism, as retired U.S. Army JAG officer Todd E. Pierce explains.”
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/08/21/making-the-world-the-enemy/
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