“ENEMY COMBATIVE” OR …….”TIME OUT FOR BAD BEHAVIOR”?
‘The Justice Department says prisoners can only be detained if their support for al-Qaida, the Taliban or “associated forces” was “substantial.” But it does not define the terms and says “circumstances justifying detention will vary from case to case.”
Retired Army Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, a former Guantanamo official who has since become critical of the legal process, said it’s a change in nothing but semantics.
“There’s absolutely no change in the definition,” Abraham said in a telephone interview. “To say this is a kinder more benevolent sense of justice is absolutely false. … I think the only thing they’ve done is try to separate themselves from the energy of the debate” by eliminating Bush’s phrasing.’
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090313/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/guantanamo_detainees
BC- Looks like another check off the list for the new administration…..but is it just “window dressing”….sure looks that way…and that’s ok in this writer’s book…
