Detainees participate in an early morning prayer session at Camp IV at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base August 5, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Deborah Gembara/FilesObama Administration Readies Indefinite Detention Order For Guantanamo Detainees -- Washington Post
The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration, U.S. officials said.
The administration has long signaled that the use of prolonged detention, preferably at a facility in the United States, was one element of its plan to close Guantanamo. An interagency task force found that 48 of the 174 detainees remaining at the facility would have to be held in what the administration calls prolonged detention.
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More News On Rule Changes For Guantanamo Detainees
Executive Order Being Drafted for Indefinite Detention -- ABC News
New reviews for Guantanamo inmates -- Al Jazeera
Obama weighs review process for Guantanamo detainees -- Reuters
Suspected terrorists could periodically question indefinite detentions -- CNN
Obama Administration Drafting Order on Indefinite Detention for Guantanamo Detainees -- FOX News
Senate Looks To Restrict Guantanamo Prosecutions -- NPR
Review boards planned for Gitmo detainees -- UPI
US draft order prepared on Guantanamo suspects -- AFP
My Comment: This is all theater to placate Democrat allies on the left. This proposal is going to fail .... especially with the new Congress threatening to cut off any funds that would transfer these detainees to US soil.