Why the Sixth Amendment exists

Yahoo! News - Memo: al-Qaida Taught Bomb Suspect

"But the memo, written by Defense Department adviser Michael Hobbs and released Tuesday by the Justice Department states that other intelligence shows Padilla was not a member of al-Qaida and that there was no timetable for an attack.

Hobbs wrote that some of the people who informed on Padilla may have provided false information to mislead the U.S. government.

The memo was included with a government court filing in which Justice Department attorneys defended the military's detention of Padilla without trial."

I'm not saying the guy's innocent, mind you, but if John Ashcroft and George W. could strip this suspect's constitutional rights, they can take away anyone's. And the the truth is always a little more complicated than the government would have you believe.