Obama's wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights.(The Week)(President Barack Obama)(Brief article)

Obama's wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights. It is not a new policy; it is the Bush administration's old policy. There are some crumbs to satisfy those in Obama's hard-Left base who actually believed the hopey-change campaign rhetoric: Detainees won't be called "enemy combatants" anymore, and the administration purports not to be relying on the commander-in-chief's inherent constitutional powers to hold them without trial. But we are still going to hold them. The Justice Department explained to a federal court that under the international law of war and Congress's post-9/11 authorization of military force, the president has unilateral power to imprison anyone he judges to ...