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"U.S. Abandons Detainee Label but Policy Is Largely Intact"

"U.S. Abandons Detainee Label but Policy Is Largely Intact": Saturday's edition of The New York Times will contain an article that begins, "The Obama administration said Friday that it would abandon the Bush administration's term 'enemy combatant' as it argues in court for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a move that seemed intended to symbolically separate the new administration from Bush detention policies."

Saturday's edition of The Washington Post will report that "U.S. Retires 'Enemy Combatant,' Keeps Broad Right to Detain."

The Associated Press reports that "Obama admin. to end use of term 'enemy combatant.'"

James Rowley of Bloomberg News reports that "Obama Drops Enemy Combatant Term in Guantanamo Cases."

Reuters reports that "U.S. drops 'enemy combatant' as basis for detention."

At "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston has a post titled "U.S. defines its claim to detention power."

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a news release titled "Department of Justice Withdraws 'Enemy Combatant' Definition for Guantanamo Detainees." The news release links to the "Declaration of Attorney General Eric Holder" and a brief that the federal government filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Full post as published by How Appealing on March 13, 2009 (boomark / email).