American Held as ISIS Suspect, Creating a Quandary for the Trump Administration

American Held as ISIS Suspect, Creating a Quandary for the Trump Administration

American Held as ISIS Suspect, Creating a Quandary for the Trump Administrationbr But holding a citizen in long-term wartime detention as an enemy combatant — something the military has not done since the George W. Bush administration — would rekindle major legal problems left dormant since Mr. Bush left officebr and could put at risk the legal underpinnings for the fight against the Islamic State.br "A U.S. citizen may lawfully be subject to military detention in armed conflict under appropriate circumstances," he added, pointing to a 2004 decisionbr in which the Supreme Court upheld the indefinite wartime detention of an American citizen captured in the Afghanistan war, Yasser Hamdi.br 6, 2017br WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials are divided over how to handle a United States citizenbr that the military has held in Iraq for more than three weeks as a suspected Islamic State fighter, according to an official familiar with internal deliberations, raising a dilemma that could resurrect some of the biggest wartime policy questions of the post-911 era.br Providing the first details about a predicament that the Trump administration has kept draped in near-total secrecy, the official said the problem facing Pentagon and Justice Department officials is how to ensurebr that the man — who surrendered on Sept. 12 to a Syrian rebel militia, which turned him over to the American military — will stay imprisoned.br The Supreme Court has never ruled on what kind of hearing — or how much or what typebr of evidence — is sufficient to hold an American in indefinite wartime detention.br In 2004, the Supreme Court ruled that his detention as a wartime prisoner was lawful — but alsobr that he had a right to challenge the evidence that he was an enemy fighter in a hearing before a neutral decision maker.


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