No more "Enemy Combatants"

[marmar]

:toast:



from ThinkProgress:



Obama administration withdraws ‘enemy combatant’ definition.

Today, the Obama Justice Department abandoned one of the most prominent phrases of the Bush administration — “enemy combatant.” In a filing with the DC District Court, the DoJ said that it would no longer use the term and asserted a new standard for the government’s authority to hold detainees at Gitmo. The Obama administration is still claiming that it has the authority to hold prisoners there, but it will now be based on authority from Congress and the international laws of war. The Bush administration claimed that the president could unilaterally hold prisoners without charge.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/03/13/obama-enemy-combatant/