News Flash: Executive Order on Detention

Benjamin Wittes
Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:57 PM
The Washington Post and Propublica are both reporting that the Obama administration is readying an executive order laying out a process for long-term detention for Guantanamo detainees. I will post some thoughts on my exceptionally mixed feelings about this development, which is not altogether new, later this evening.

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The Washington Post and Propublica are both reporting that the Obama administration is readying an executive order laying out a process for long-term detention for Guantanamo detainees. I will post some thoughts on my exceptionally mixed feelings about this development, which is not altogether new, later this evening.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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