Yesterday, Ed Morrissey wrote an article over at Hot Air criticizing the Obama administration’s plans to create an indefinite detention system for untriable terrorists:

There are two main problems with pursuing an indefinite-detention law.  First, any exception carved out of those Constitutional rights will only serve as a precedent for further exceptions.  This is truly a slippery slope.  Right now, the lawmakers say that the exception will only apply to al-Qaeda terrorists, but what about child molesters?  There has been an ongoing debate for many years over the lack of rehabilitation of serial molesters.  When they have served their prison time, they get released — but some communities have petitioned for indefinite detention of molesters beyond their sentence.| MORE ›

A recently released report by Seton Hall University reviews an August 2008 report by the U.S. government that concluded three detainees housed at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba committed suicide by hanging in June 2006.  According to the report:

There is no explanation of how each of the detainees, much less all three, could have done the following:| MORE ›

Fox news reports:

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate is leading the fight against U.S. Marines in the Helmand province of Afghanistan, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday.

Mullah Zakir, also known as Abdullah Ghulam Rasoul, surrendered in Mazar-e-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan in 2001, and was transferred to Gitmo in 2006.| MORE ›

How things change when you’re in power:

He now opposes closing it anytime soon but naturally is A-OK with closing it at some murky, distant time in the future. Which, as far as I can tell, means he holds the same position on it as George W. Bush or Dick Cheney.| MORE ›

Oh, oh, this is sure to anger left-wing groups and individuals who worked so hard to get their man, Barack Obama, elected:| MORE ›

Oh, the hypocrisy: after blasting George W. Bush and Republicans in general for years over the very existence of prison camp Guantanamo Bay, Congressional Democrats on Tuesday refused to fund closing it.| MORE ›

When I first heard that Spaniards were considering launching an investigation into allegations that six senior Bush administration officials—including ex-Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales—gave legal cover for the torture of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, I thought to myself: “there we go again.| MORE ›