Top Bush administration officials, including (no surprise) Vice President Dick Cheney, argued that the president had the authority to use the military to round up a suspected terrorist cell known as the Lackawanna Six. Cheney and others cited a legal memorandum co-written by John Yoo (author of the infamous torture memo), which made the baseless claim that the military can go after accused Al Qaeda terrorists on US soil. |
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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.