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SO MUCH FOR THE FIERCE MORAL URGENCY (CONT?D): Indefinite Detention, With Or Without Trial. ?So th?

By Glenn Reynolds

SO MUCH FOR THE FIERCE MORAL URGENCY (CONT’D): Indefinite Detention, With Or Without Trial. “So the Obama administration is all for due process, as long as it produces the correct result. Obama already has said that Guantanamo detainees who cannot be successfully tried by military commissions or civilian courts can still be imprisoned indefinitely if they are considered too dangerous to release. Now Johnson is saying that even those who are prosecuted can be kept imprisoned regardless of the verdict. The only point of prosecuting them, it seems, is to create an impression of due process while continuing the Bush detention policies that Obama condemned during the campaign.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).