Since writing my last post, I received this from Tracy Schmaler at the Justice Department, responding to my earlier request for comment on the habeas corpus case of Mohammed Jawad:
We have informed the judge in this case that we will not contest the writ of habeas corpus
The Obama administration’s Detention Policy Task Force has issued a preliminary report recommending that Guantanamo Bay detainees be tried in federal court for criminal violations, if possible, and in military commissions if they’ve violated the laws of war. But the big decisions about future detention policy, and issuance of More…
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release January 22, 2009
EXECUTIVE ORDER
REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, in order to develop More…
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