those are the rights reserved to american citizens unour constitution and -- under our constitutions and laws. if professor koh was correct, and he's not, this means that enemy combatants captured on the field in afghanistan and held at the air force base would be able to sue in the u.s. courts seeking their release. on this issue, fortunately, dean koh's radical views are not shared by the obama administration, which filed a brief recently arguing that habeas corpus relief does not extend to detainees at the air force base in afghanistan. do we really want a top legal adviser to the state department working to grant terrorists and enemy combatants, even more rights than they have now? there is the issue of military commissions, something that this congress has spoken on at some length after a lengthy debate. professor koh's view of military commission also deserve our attention. military commissions, it turns out, have been authorized since the beginning of this country by george washington during the revolutionary war, abraham lincoln during the civil war, and frank lynn roosevelt