It wasn’t until late Friday afternoon that the Obama Justice Department, after years of wrangling over the fate of Mohammed Jawad, the Afghan boy arrested for allegedly lobbing a hand grenade at U.S. soldiers in 2002, admitted that it does not have enough evidence to continue to hold him More…
It’s been exactly one year since then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey proposed in a speech at the American Enterprise Institute that Congress pass legislation declaring a new, expanded war with al-Qaeda and the Taliban — thereby granting the president the authority to detain indefinitely members of those groups anywhere in More…
When President Obama relinquished the term “enemy combatant” from the government’s lexicon as a justification for holding prisoners indefinitely without charge or trial, he didn’t give up the power to hold people he deemed were fighting the United States. But the question remained: how does the government decide who those More…
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