New York Times Calls Warsame Detention "Extralegal"

Check out this news story on yesterday's court appearance by Ahmed Warsame. I've hammered on the New York Times editorial page for repeatedly--and erroneously--saying that non-criminal detention takes place outside the law. But here the news pages are doing the same thing:

Attention has focused on the two months that the defendant, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, spent in extralegal detention on a United States naval vessel. He was questioned there by military interrogators, who did not issue a Miranda warning (emphasis added).

Look, this isn't a matter of opinion or editorial judgment. It's a simple matter of whether one wishes to give one's readers a reasonably accurate understanding of the laws at issue when one describes a case. The New York Times editorial page does not concede factual errors. The paper's news pages are better than that. Let's see how they handle this one.