A new twist: the government seeks the desire to define crimes at wil in military tribunals against POWS:

"From the Washington Post -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101334.html?nav=hcmodule

White House Proposal Would Expand Authority of Military Courts
By R. Jeffrey Smith

A draft Bush administration plan for special military courts seeks to
expand the reach and authority of such "commissions" to include
trials, for the first time, of people who are not members of al-Qaeda
or the Taliban and are not directly involved in acts of international
terrorism, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The plan, which would replace a military trial system ruled illegal
by the Supreme Court in June, would also allow the secretary of
defense to add crimes at will to those under the military court's
jurisdiction. The two provisions would be likely to put more
individuals than previously expected before military juries,
officials and independent experts said.

The draft proposed legislation, set to be discussed at two Senate
hearings today, is controversial inside and outside the
administration because defendants would be denied many protections
guaranteed by the civilian and traditional military criminal justice
systems. ..."