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, the Treasury department has
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, which means engaging in transactions on his behalf (such as a suit challenging his status as a "Global Terrorist" in the eyes of the administration) are prohibited. The ACLU is challenging the Treasury Department's action.

"Unless the government grants the ACLU and CCR a specific license," notes the suit, "OFAC's regulations make it a criminal offense for ACLU and CCR attorneys to file a lawsuit on Mr. Awlaki's father's behalf seeking to protect the constitutional rights of his U.S. citizen son. In other words, under the regulations at issue in this case, the same government that is seeking to kill Anwar al-Awlaki has prohibited attorneys from contesting the legality of the government's decision to use lethal force against him."

This strikes me as the habeas corpus fight all over again, though it does put a new spin on the translation ("that you have the body" in latin), and makes it all the more disturbing that the government still hasn't complied with the SCOTUS with respect to the Hamdan ruling and prisoners being shipped to/detained in Bagram.

It's not particularly earth-shattering news, I guess, but maybe we could speculate on what frontier we'll reach next in the ever-escalating quest to ensure that
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My guess is that the next frontier will be to block even such suits as this one from being heard, invoking state secrets to do so as per the usual.

What would you do if you were in Awlaki's situation? (assume you're guilty/innocent as you please)