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September 24, 2009

Obama Won’t Seek New Indefinite Detention Authority
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The Obama administration has announced it won’t ask Congress for new
powers to jail terror suspects indefinitely and without charge. The
White House will instead continue to use the indefinite-detention system
established after the 9/11 attacks. Civil liberties groups have opposed
the indefinite jailing but warned that a new system could have left
prisoners with even fewer rights. Guantanamo Bay prisoners are currently
able to challenge their imprisonment in US courts. Christopher Anders of
the American Civil Liberties Union said, “Going to Congress with new
detention authority legislation would only have made a bad situation
worse.”



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