Homeland Security has a big net

A report in the New Jersey Law Journal reveals that the Department of Homeland Security has been using administrative rules that were written to combat terrorism to secretly confine sex offenders and other non-terrorists -- sometimes at the mere check of a box by a government lawyer. Immigrants detained under the program, called "Operation Predator," typically have little or no access to judicial review prior to their detention, and are instead forced to bring after-the-fact, habeas corpus challenges to their confinement. The program's use raises questions about the legitimacy of the national security justification for the rules.   article

But that's okay. Dubbie said so. So'd Tom Ridge.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.