Administration Signals It Won’t Push Legal Limits of Terrorism Detention
Feb. 5: This post has been corrected.
The five-page letter (PDF) that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder issued this week defending the decision to treat the Christmas Day bomber suspect as a criminal suspect, rather than as a wartime captive, offered new insight into the Obama administration's view of the limits of preventive detention.
The letter suggests that the administration sees virtually no legal foundation for holding terrorism suspects arrested on U.S. soil in preventive detention and has very little interest in … more…
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Series of Blunders Followed Christmas Bomb Attempt
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Our Articles on Wounded Iraq and Afghan Interpreters—Now in Arabic
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Blinded From a Sniper Bullet and Shortchanged by the System (Arabic)
The following is an Arabic translation of our article: Blinded From a Sniper Bullet and Shortchanged by the System
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AIGs Man in Jordan (in Arabic)
عماد حطبة
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U.S. Contractor Announces Plans to Train Pakistani NGOs, On Its Own Dime
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T. Christian Miller Comes Up for Fresh Air
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August 20, 2009
C.I.A. Sought Blackwater’s Help in Plan to Kill Jihadists Mark Mazzetti , NYT, August 20, 2009
July 17, 2009
Texas Gov. Refused Stimulus, Wants Loan Stephanie Condon, CBS News, July 17, 2009
May 18, 2009
Obama to Keep Tribunals; Stance Angers Some Backers William Glaberson, New York Times, May 18, 2009
May 05, 2009
Congress Seeks State Dept’s ‘Alternative’ Torture Memo Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, May 05, 2009
May 04, 2009
Murtha’s Nephew Named a Lobbyist for Marines David D. Kirkpatrick, New York Times, May 04, 2009
April 28, 2009
U.S. Official: NSA Didn’t Wiretap Rep. Harman Pamela Hess, AP, April 28, 2009
April 20, 2009
U.S. Border Screening Under Fire Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post, April 20, 2009
Who Are the Torture Memo Authors? Zachary Roth, TPMMuckraker, April 20, 2009
Influential Muslim Groups Question FBI’s Actions Paloma Esquivel, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 2009
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