Nobel Peace Laureate Obama’s Guantanamo policy uncomfortably close to Bush administration policies
LA Times – President Obama began the year with a pledge to close the Guantanamo prison, and to restore due process and the core constitutional values that he said “made this country great.” But his administration has set out a multi-pronged legal policy for the remaining Guantanamo prisoners that bears a striking similarity to that of the final year of George W. Bush’s presidency. Some detainees could be held indefinitely without being charged, if they’re deemed impossible to prosecute but too dangerous to release. Congress gave the president that power after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to the Bush and now the Obama administrations. Bush used that authority to capture and imprison people he determined were a danger to the nation. Read Article
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