Innocent? So what?
An absolutely chilling article from FOXNews.com informs us that the Obama administration is now claiming the right to "continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted (italics mine) of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission."
Recall that the Bush administration was lambasted during its stay for (a) holding terrorist trials by military commission instead of a jury and (b) holding terrorists for indefinite periods of time. Now our new president, still fresh from campaigning on the promise of a more humanitarian policy toward these same people, is saying that even when alleged terrorists do get trials and are found innocent, they remain entirely at the United States' mercy.
Would even President Bush have dared to suggest that? And what are we going to do about it?
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