{"id":77476,"date":"2018-02-02T10:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77476"},"modified":"2018-02-02T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T15:34:17","slug":"john-doe-us-citizen-captured-fighting-with-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77476","title":{"rendered":"John Doe; US citizen captured fighting with ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/american-islamic-state-fighter-case-challenges-trump-012344819.html\">AFP<\/a> reports that a US citizen who also has Saudi Arabian dual-citizenship is being held in Iraq, known only as John Doe, is in legal limbo while the Trump Administration wrestles with his status. He surrendered to Syrian rebels last year, about five months ago. The ACLU is fighting the US government for access to Mr Doe;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit to get access to the prisoner. The government refused to provide any information about him &#8212; his name, age, or origins.<\/p>\n<p>They termed him an enemy fighter and claimed he showed no desire for legal representation.<\/p>\n<p>Hearings on his status between September and January were surreal: government lawyers argued he had never expressed the desire for legal representation, though they would not say if he had been asked; that the ACLU had no standing to represent him because they had not been requested; and that the ACLU could not represent the man because they did not know his identity.<\/p>\n<p>In January the judge, Tanya Chutkan, rejected government arguments and ordered them to grant the ACLU access.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/aclu-trumps-america-exclusionary\">ACLU&#8217;s national political director, Faiz Shakir, also complained that Trump used the word &#8220;America&#8221;<\/a> too many times in the State of the Union Address, so their claims for this un-American ring hollow.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Doe gave up any chance he had for US Constitutional rights when he joined ISIS. In fact, when they execute him, he doesn&#8217;t even have a right to a US-made bullet or rope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFP reports that a US citizen who also has Saudi Arabian dual-citizenship is being held in &hellip; <a title=\"John Doe; US citizen captured fighting with ISIS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77476\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John Doe; US citizen captured fighting with ISIS<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}