2012 May 24 |
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War on Terrorism

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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

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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

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