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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)
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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.
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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
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"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
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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
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"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.
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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
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Ari Melber: Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan 2009
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Shayana Kadidal: Closing Guant��namo Is Easier Than You Think, Mr. President 2009
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Russ Wellen: The Careless, Corrupt Program That Begat Preventive Detention and Torture 2009
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