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  • So if the guy gets a good attorney, and the government does not use extrajudicial means (if it does not Ghailani him under some autocratic anti-terrorism preventive-detention like draconian)

    Global Voices in English » Tanzania: Blogger arrested for publishing manipulated images of the president 2009

  • As part of our never-ending quest to present a dramatis personae in the preventive-detention debate, I published a piece yesterday about civil liberties groups lining up to oppose an Obama administration scheme for such detentions.

    Factions | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • As Greg Craig put it: "hard to imagine Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to introduce a preventive-detention law."

    Obama Wants Preventive Detention!? William Harryman 2009

  • "The first President of the United States to introduce a preventive-detention law" is how Obama's own White House Counsel described him.

    Obama Wants Preventive Detention!? William Harryman 2009

  • Critics say the Bush administration radically reinterpreted the law after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, using it as a preventive-detention tool.

    NYT > Home Page By ADAM LIPTAK 2010

  • "It's possible but hard to imagine Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to introduce a preventive-detention law," Craig said.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2009

  • The New Yorker's Jane Mayer that it would be "hard to imagine Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to introduce a preventive-detention law."

    Privacy Digest 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. politics/blog; featured-posts = 1; politics = 1; nickname = ari-melber; entry_id = 221764; @ypolitics = 1; ari-melber = 1; detention = 1; executive-order = 1; marc-ambinder = 1; obama = 1; preventive-detention = 1",

    Ari Melber: Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; world = 1; nickname = shayana-kadidal; entry_id = 157735; closing-guantanamo = 1; guantanamo = 1; guantanamo-uighurs = 1; obama = 1; preventive-detention = 1; yemen = 1",

    Shayana Kadidal: Closing Guant��namo Is Easier Than You Think, Mr. President 2009

  • "zone_info": "huffpost. world/blog; featured-posts = 1; world = 1; nickname = russ-wellen; entry_id = 212117; afghanistan = 1; detaineees = 1; germany = 1; guantanamo = 1; military-tribunals = 1; preventive-detention = 1; torture = 1",

    Russ Wellen: The Careless, Corrupt Program That Begat Preventive Detention and Torture 2009

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