Confusing Language

One of the big problems with the detainee bill is that the language is sufficiently murky that no one really seems to know what it says. A basic question arising from the bill is whether or not suspension of habeus corpus can be applied to citizens or not, a pretty basic scoping question I would think. Law professor Jack Balkin suggests that it could apply to citizens, whereas law professor Glenn Reynolds says it doesn't. If the bill can't even clearly lay out its own scope, it had no business being passed. Not that our elected officials would actually take their responsibilities seriously. Why should they start now?