Posted on 09/14/2009 6:47:04 PM PDT by Nachum
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.
Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy in a court filing Monday night that said the Bagram detainees' rights shouldn't extend as far as U.S. courtrooms.
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the Justice Department said Bagram detainees should not be given equal rights to sue in the United States that the Supreme Court granted last year to detainees being held at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.
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The list, ping
Unexpected outbreak of common sense, contact with reality, in the “Obama administration.”
Obama attacked indefinite detention when running for office, yet now wants to keep it, just like he attacked warrantless wiretapping and now wants to keep it and has actually expanded it.
Just like Rush has said in some instances (not all decisions that Obama makes), I wonder who is (and if someone is) pulling his strings concerning indefinite detention.
no im sure it was for political benefit
Could be. But how?
i am guessing its because his poll numbers were sliding....it was reported on the weekend that the administration was behind allowing them to file lawsuits.
Kind of reminds me when Bill Clinton ran against Bush 41 and described our policy on not admitting Haitian refugees as being inhumane. Yet, when he became President, he continued the same policy.
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