You're free to go (as soon as we win the war on evil)

Now that a Federal appeals court has ruled that the U.S. can indefinitely detain citizens (without charges) in wartime, who will be next?

The United States Supreme Court declared on June 28, 2004, that "a state of war is not a blank check for the president" and that those deemed enemy combatants by the Bush administration had to be given the chance to challenge their detentions before a judge or other neutral decision-maker. -NYT 9/9/2005

The ruling by a three-judge panel limits the President's power to detain Padilla to the duration of hostilities against al Qaeda, but the Bush administration has said that war could go on indefinitely. -WP 9/9/2005

Sounds pretty close to a blank check...or at least guilty until proven innocent