from raw story: The Military Commissions Act of 2006 eliminates habeas corpus from traditional rights of prisoners.

“In fact, Countdown has obtained a partially redacted copy of a colonial ‘declaration’ indicating that back then, ‘depriving us of trial by jury’ was actually considered sufficient cause to start a war of independence, based on the then-fashionable idea that ‘liberty’ was an unalienable right,” said Olbermann.