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An OLC memo concluding that “the military has the legal authority to detain [Jose Padilla] as a prisoner captured during an international armed conflict,” and that the Posse Comitatus Act poses no bar.
Larry Thompson, John D. Ashcroft, Richard Lee Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Pasquale D'Amuro, Michael Chertoff, David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Bruce Swartz, Robert S. Mueller
John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla