The Daily Background
| Newly declassified document shows Hoover wanted to round up dissidents
by Arlen Parsa
New revelations show how close we came to rounding up political dissidents Stalin-style:
A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.
Hoover sent his plan to the White House on July 7, 1950, 12 days after the Korean War began. It envisioned putting suspect Americans in military prisons.
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the country against treason, espionage and sabotage.â€
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“In order to make effective these apprehensions, the proclamation suspends the Writ of Habeas Corpus,†it said.Habeas corpus, the right to seek relief from illegal detention, has been a fundamental principle of law for seven centuries. The Bush administration’s decision to hold suspects for years at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has made habeas corpus a contentious issue for Congress and the Supreme Court today.
Scary, isn’t it? Of course, considering that this was going on at the time of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Hollywood blacklisting, and McCarthyism, it is not particularly surprising.
[…] The Daily Background: A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty. […]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/30/94835/3481
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