Why aren't drug dealers prisoners of war?

Camp X-Ray's just not big enough now they've crossed it with a zoo and put a leopard in each terrorist cage

However it is attracting a lot more tourists now.

So does the CIA / FBI have carte blanche to arrest anyone as a war criminal if they want to under the current situation?

Right now, there isn't a drug dealer idiot enough to align themeselves with suspected terrorists for money. That would probably be the only way they'd get caught....and only if the CIA can manage to see their hands in front of their faces.

doubtful

So does the CIA / FBI have carte blanche to arrest anyone as a war criminal if they want to under the current situation?

Don't give Ashcroft ideas.

"War" as in "War on Drugs" is a metaphor for an all-out attack on a commonly recognized social harm (previous U.S. administations have previously "declared war" on poverty, inflation, illiteracy, and AIDS, among other issues and concepts). However, U.S. citizens arrested under drug laws in theory still are legally entitled to the due process of law.

I am sure there are people out there who think that it would be a Good Thing to literally apply martial law and/or suspend civil liberties in the cases of those accused of drug dealing, but the Bush administration's current policies already curl my hair. Please don't give them any ideas in this vein.

In actuality, the opposite is happening - whatever focus on the war on drugs still existed at the FBI and the Justice Department has shifted entirely to anti-terrorism task forces. The war on drugs is literally just lip service now, it's been barely more than that for the past ten years.