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jcm7/09/2009 8:14:34 pm PDT

Confusion in the Administration?

Johnson Opens the Door to Post-Acquittal Detentions

Johnson said that “as a matter of legal authority,” the administration’s powers to detain someone under the law of war don’t expire for a detainee after he’s acquitted in court. “If you have authority under the law of war to detain someone” under the Supreme Court’s Hamdi ruling, “that is true irrespective of what happens on the prosecution side.”

So what’s the point of sticking them in the civilian system if your going to hang on to them anyway? Why all the effort and cost of a trial?

Sounds like wanting to have their cake and eat it too.