Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free

**Jason** · 07-08-2009, 01:35 PM

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.

Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department's chief lawyer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision that officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat.

Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration argues that the legal basis for indefinite detention of aliens it considers dangerous is separate from war-crimes prosecutions. Officials say that the laws of war allow indefinite detention to prevent aliens from committing warlike acts in future, while prosecution by military commission aims to punish them for war crimes committed in the past.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124699680303307309.html

Tumbleweed36 · 07-08-2009, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jason

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.

Change you can believe in!

**Drew1369** · 07-08-2009, 04:32 PM

Wow... even Bush didn't go that far... he was releasing those acquitted... even if they took a long long time to get to trial they were still released...

wow

yustr · 07-08-2009, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Tumbleweed36

Change you can believe in!

I agree - this is bad.

ddrfan · 07-09-2009, 01:51 AM

wrong place wrong time for the detainees that were acquitted?

07-08-2009, 01:35 PM	#1 (permalink)
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Drew1369 Moderator Relaxation Room Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 3,425 OS: Win7 Ultimate	Re: Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free Wow... even Bush didn't go that far... he was releasing those acquitted... even if they took a long long time to get to trial they were still released... wow __________________ We humans have a primal urge to kill because, thanks to natural selection, all the homo sapiens who didn't have a primal urge to kill, were themselves killed. http://obamaclock.org/

07-09-2009, 01:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
ddrfan Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: california Posts: 68 OS: windows vista ultimate sp2	Re: Detainees, Even if Acquitted, Might Not Go Free wrong place wrong time for the detainees that were acquitted?