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Preventive Detention

Good News on Immigration Detention But Keeping the Pressure On

Michelle Brané | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Asylum Seekers, Immigration Reform, Obama Immigration, Immigration Debate, Immigrant Detention, Immigration Detention Centers, Politics News
Michelle Brané

Some 440,000 immigrants and asylum-seekers are expected to be detained in the U.S. this year. We need to be realistic. We need immigration reform and that has to come from Congress.

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Detainees in Wonderland

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, Preventive Detention, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Elizabeth Goitein

If the government intends to incarcerate suspected criminals regardless of the verdict, then the trial is just a show. As the Queen of Hearts said in Alice in Wonderland: "Sentence first -- verdict afterwards."

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Preventive Detention, at What Cost?

Shahid Buttar | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Preventive Detention, Civil Liberties, War on Terror, Constitution, Guantanamo Detainees, Due Process, Cointelpro, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Whether called "preventive", "indefinite" or "prolonged," prevention detention schemes are essentially lawless, unconstitutional and un-American. At its root, detention without trial threatens democracy.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News
Andy Worthington

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Obama's Radical Gitmo Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Feingold, Ccr, Aclu, Preventive Detention, Obama, Gitmo, Constitution Project, Obama Detainees, Obama Guantanamo, Obama Gitmo, Obama Detention, Obama Detention Policy, Politics News
Ari Melber

Obama's controversial detention plan for Guantanamo detainees keeps leaking and it is a fundamentally radical, dangerous and potentially unconstitutional approach.

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Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan

Ari Melber | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Obama, Ari Melber, Marc Ambinder, Detention, Executive Order, Politics News
Ari Melber

The Obama administration is rushing towards a unilateral plan to imprison people without trial. The proposal would cut Congress out of the process by using an executive order to essentially bring Gitmo stateside.

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, President Obama, George W. Bush, Navi Pillay, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Eric Holder, Judge John D. Bates, World News, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Abdul Rahim Al-Ginco, ACLU Torture, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Bagram Torture, Closing Guantanamo, World, Terrorism, CIA Torture, US District Court, Justice Department, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Abou Elkassim Britel, International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

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The Careless, Corrupt Program That Begat Preventive Detention and Torture

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.07.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Afghanistan, Military Tribunals, Detaineees, Guantanamo, Torture, Germany, World News
Russ Wellen

Bounties, by sheer dint of preceding and laying the groundwork for illegal detention and torture, are equal to them in culpability for the havoc we've wreaked on detainees. To preclude preventive detention and torture in the future, we need to enforce a policy of paying only for information, not scalps.

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Obama's Guantánamo Appeasement Plan

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, War on Terror, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Marjorie Cohn

Obama's capitulation to the intelligence gurus and the right-wing attack dogs will not only imperil the rule of law; it will actually make us more vulnerable to future acts of terrorism.

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National Security vs. Our Values: "The Toughest Issue We Will Face"

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Protecting Our Security and Our Values, Obama Guantanamo, Prosecuting Detainees, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Detainees, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

What should we do with "detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people"? This question cuts to the very heart of the concept of preventive detention.

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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No "Preventive Detention"

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, US Supreme Court, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush Administration, Obama Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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Closing Guantánamo Is Easier Than You Think, Mr. President

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Yemen, Guantanamo Uighurs, Obama, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo, World News
Shayana Kadidal

Our new president should discard the last seven years of legal novelties in favor of the traditional model of detaining only those men who can and should be charged and tried for some criminal offense.

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Don't "Split the Baby" with National Security Courts

Ginny Sloan | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, Justice, National Security Courts, Terrorism, Ginny Sloan, The Constitution Project, Human Rights, War on Terror, Bush Administration Terrorism, Counterterrorism, Hybrid Courts, Habeus Corpus, Due Process, War on Terrorism, Politics News
Ginny Sloan

Proponents of national security courts claim that these new hybrid courts would eliminate burdensome procedural rules that protect the rights of defendants.

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