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The Tide Turns In US Legal War On Terror

CBSNews:
... This week we may have seen the turning of the tide in the legal war on terror. For the first time since the Twin Towers fell, the federal judiciary began to push back against the executive branch along a broad range of terror-law fronts.

And for the first time since Sept. 11, 2001, the Administration began, grudgingly, to acknowledge some of the political and legal limitations inherent in an overall strategy (i.e., detain first, sort things out later) that is much more un-American than not.

It may just be a dip in the curve. The courts certainly have not completely vitiated the government’s anti-terror efforts. And the Supreme Court itself hasn’t yet spoken substantively on any of the civil liberties issues raised in the past two years.