Source: Thewaronwar.com
Ron Paul introduced H.R. 3835 on 10/15/2007 which is a bill to essentially repeal the draconian 2006 Military Commissions Act. It’s important for people to know that there is still a congressman who actually wants to restore the Constitution and Habeas Corpus.
From Opencongress.com:
10/15/2007–Introduced.
American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 - Repeals the Military Commissions
Act of 2006. Authorizes the President to establish military commissions
for the trial of war crimes only in places of active hostilities
against the United States where an immediate trial is necessary
to preserve fresh evidence or to prevent local anarchy. Prohibits the
President from detaining any individual indefinitely as an unlawful
enemy combatant absent proof by substantial evidence that the
individual has directly engaged in active hostilities against the
United States. Prohibits the detention of any U.S. citizen as an
unlawful enemy combatant. Entitles any individual detained as an enemy
combatant by the United States to petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
Prohibits any civilian or military tribunal of the United States from
admitting as evidence statements extracted from the defendant by
torture or coercion. Prohibits any federal agency from gathering
foreign intelligence in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act. Subordinates the President’s constitutional power to
gather foreign intelligence to such prohibition. Gives the House of
Representatives and Senate standing to file a declatory judgment action
in an appropriate federal district court to challenge the
constitutionality of a presidential signing statement that declares the
president’s intent to disregard provisions of a bill he has signed into
law because he believes they are unconstitutional. Prohibits any U.S.
officer or agent from kidnapping, imprisoning, or torturing any person
abroad based soley on the president’s belief that the subject of the
action is a criminal or enemy combatant. Allows kidnapping if
undertaken with the intent of bringing the kidnapped person for
prosecution or interrogation to gather intelligence before a tribunal
that meets international standards of fairness and due process.
Provides that nothing in the Espionage Act of 1917 shall prohibit a
journalist from publishing information received from the executive
branch or Congress unless the publication would cause direct,
immediate, and irreparable harm to U.S. national security. Prohibits
the use of secret evidence by the President or any other member of the
executive branch to designate an individual or organization with a U.S.
presence as a foreign terrorist or foreign terrorist organization for
purposes of the criminal law or civil sanctions.