Daschle’s Words Aid Padilla
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The disclosure by a former Senate majority leader that President Bush sought and failed to receive broad authority from Congress to pursue the war on terror on American soil could undercut the government’s legal position in ongoing cases involving alleged enemy combatants held in military custody.
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