McCarthy for Administrative Detention

Andrew McCarthy, that is, writing in the National Review here. From a national security point of view he is very sensible. He is opposing the left's position that business-as-usual due process of law should be used on terrorist. Terrorists are just criminals. The problem is that they speak some other language, usually Arabic or Farsi, and they are international, so that by the time you can get enough goods on them (translated into good old English), they have flown the coop. That's the security guy's argument. The problem, and we have seen it in Israel in spades, is that the government which is on the ropes, the President or the FBI director is in a bind, he will use it against internal opposition. Besides, the US has a real constitution, not like our rule by fiat of the Supreme Court here. I wrote to McCarthy outlining those points. We'll see if he responds.