President Barack Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility during his campaign and again after his Inauguration.
For many voters, this signaled an end to the policy of indefinite detention, one questionable legal legacy of the Bush administration.
Given this inferred promise, it looks bad enough that the Obama administration has announced plans to continue to hold indefinitely 48 current Guantanamo detainees.
But even worse, the administration is reportedly considering an international expansion of the practice of indefinite detention.
There is already a classified draft of the policy that lays out rules permitting suspected terrorists captured in the future to be detained indefinitely without charge and interrogated in overseas prisons, according to the Los Angeles Times.
This report becomes all the more troubling in light of a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision Friday.
The court decided in favor of the administration when it ruled that detainees held at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan have no right to challenge the lawfulness of their detention.
According to the court, this ruling even covers detainees captured far from any war zone and brought to Bagram for detention. - Politico Story
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