Jose Padilla

National Security Comes First
By Andrew C. McCarthy
USA Today
March 4, 2005

Jose PadillaJose Padilla happens to be a U.S. citizen. He is also, however, alleged by the executive branch to be an unlawful enemy combatant who came here from the headquarters of an enemy against which we are actively at war, al-Qaeda, precisely to conduct terrorist operations on behalf of that enemy.
U.S. District Judge Henry Floyd's ruling that the government must charge Padilla as a common criminal or release him outright endangers this country. The U.S. must appeal.
Undeniably, the issue the judge was asked to deal with is a difficult one, involving a citizen apprehended on U.S. soil before he had the opportunity to execute an atrocity.

From Foundation for Defense of Democracies