detention

He says all the right things, doesn’t he?  Here’s President Obama from tonight’s speech, on American values, justice and torture:
To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend – because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have [...]

Last week, CIA Director-designate appeared to argue that certain Al Qaeda detainees were too dangerous to stand trial — something that threw civil libertarians for a loop, given the recent executive orders from the Obama administration ordering the closure of Guantanamo Bay, the CIA’s secret prisons and a thorough review of future detention policy. Now [...]

As President Obama talks about building up U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it raises the inevitable question about what he’s going to do with the 600 prisoners the United States is holding at the prison at the Bagram air base – and whether previous plans to build a new prison to hold 1000 more detainees will [...]

As Adam Liptak wrote in The New York Times on Saturday, the President-elect Barack Obama’s Justice Department is going to have to quickly figure out what positions it will take in some thorny legal cases involving the indefinite detention and torture of “war on terror” detainees.
The Al-Marri case Liptak writes about, and which I’ve been [...]

TWI’s legal correspondent Daphne Eviatar appeared on the Al Jazeera English show Inside Story on Tuesday to discuss the future of Guantanamo and its detainees. For a thorough and level-headed analysis of this important topic, take a look at the video, in two parts after the jump.
In the first segment, Daphne and former Guantanamo detainee [...]

By now you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of the sole legal U.S. resident detained indefinitely — yes, that means potentially forever — without charges, right here on U.S. soil.  All because President Bush decided on his own authority, that this 28-year-old father of five, who was then [...]