The story: Yesterday, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing about detainee rights. In that hearing, DoD lawyer Jeh Johnson detailed the TRULY FRIGHTENING Obama Administration proposed policy of "post-acquittal detention" as part of its whole "Prolonged Detention" proposal. This amounts to being able to hold people in prison AFTER THEY'VE BEEN ACQUITTED IN A COURT OF LAW.
Here's the New York Times headline and first paragraph:
By David Johnston
WASHINGTON -- Obama administration lawyers said Tuesday at a Senate hearing that detainees prosecuted by military commissions should have some of the same constitutional rights as American citizens tried in civilian criminal courts.
In contrast, the Wall Street Journal:
By Jess Bravin
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it could continue
to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been
acquitted of terrorism charges by a U.S. military commission.
And for all of the idiotically partisan Democrats out there who hear "Wall St. Journal" and reflexively shut your eyes, plug your ears, flail around the room, and scream "Rupert Murdoch-owned" at the top of your lungs, here's liberal blogger Glenn Greenwald's post about it.
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