Michelle Malkin links a Washington Post editorial regarding the Padilla case. Needless to say some quarters use Padilla as their prime example of the ‘excesses’ the Bush is engaging under the guise of the war on terror. The problem with

While all detentions should be scrutinized, the Civil War provides ample historical precedent for the American government to detain its own citizens.

Michelle Malkin seems to think that because we are in a “war on terror” that a U.S. citizen can be arrested on U.S. soil and held against his will without any representation of an attorney and no contact with the outside for an indefinite aount of ti…