Former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sought to suspend habeas corpus

[lonestarnot]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Former_FBI_director_J._Edgar_Hoover_1222.html

According to a newly declassified document, the New York Times reports, a plan by former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sought to suspend habeas corpus during wartime, with the intention of imprisoning thousands of Americans indefinitely.

Hoover's plan was submitted to the White House twelve days after the start of the Korean War. Under the plan, approximately 12,000 people deemed as "potentially dangerous" to national security, 97% of whom were American citizens, would have been rounded up and sent to military prisons without due process.
EXCERPTS:

The prisoners eventually would have had a right to a hearing under the Hoover plan. The hearing board would have been a panel comprised of one judge and two citizens. But the hearings “will not be bound by the rules of evidence,” letter noted.

The Constitution says habeas corpus shall not be suspended “unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it.” The plan proposed by Hoover, the head of the F.B.I. from 1924 to 1972, stretched that clause to include “threatened invasion” or “attack upon United States troops in legally occupied territory.”

The entire New York Times article can be read here
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/washington/23habeas.html

[spanone]

1. if he could have held out for the bu$hies......

[lonestarnot]

2. and the a$$hats.

[Red Zelda]

3. Put lipstick on that pig

oh, he already did that.

[lonestarnot]

4. kick