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     Ashton Comedian Username: Ashton Post Number: 1055 Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 208.53.157.30 Rating: N/A |
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/us/politics/21obama.html WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said. “He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said. “We’ve known this is on the horizon for many years, but we were able to hold it off with George Bush. |
