This Congress has since gone on record indicating its regret at that action taken by this Government. Today. the executive branch has once again asserted extraordinary powers. The President has argued that he has the authority to indefinitely imprison anyone. whether a citizen or noncitizen. that he deems to be an enemy combatant. and the judicial review of such decisions is not needed or appropriate. It is in times such as these that our Founding Fathers envisioned that habeas corpus would be preserved. According to the Wall Street Journal article earlier this year. an estimated 70 percent of individuals held at Guantanamo were wrongfully imprisoned.
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