Legal Experts Comment on Military Commissions Act of 2006

“[T]he MCA (Military Commissions Act) dramatically expands the President's powers in an array of profoundly troubling ways, including permitting him to determine what constitutes torture and who may be labeled an "unlawful enemy combatant" and therefore detained indefinitely.” - The Center for Constitutional Rights

“It will be taken by the Bush Administration as a blank check to torture, to detain indefinitely without just cause, and to trample the values that win America respect in the world.”- Aziz Huq, Director of the Brennan Center for Justice’s liberty and national security project

“The Congress just gave the President despotic powers…”–Jonathan Turley, Constitutional Law Professor, George Washington University School of Law

“The President now has the ultimate dictatorial power” - Glenn Greenwald, civil rights attorney