Editorial: An American in custody asked to see a lawyer; the military should let him
For more than three months, the U.S. military has held an American citizen in secret custody in Iraq - without permitting him to see a lawyer. A federal judge rightly ruled over the weekend that the man, who is suspected of fighting for Islamic State, must be given "immediate" access to a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union.
The Trump administration should stop resisting and let the ACLU in. And it should make it clear to the military that in future
