Bagram Detainees Want To Use The U.S. Constitution

The new prison at Bagram, February, 2010. Saeed Shah/MCT

Bagram Detainees Want To Use U.S. Constitution To Argue For Release -- McClatchy News

WASHINGTON — Prisoners held without trial for years at an American air base in Afghanistan shouldn’t be able to challenge their indefinite detention with the help of the U.S. Constitution, Obama administration attorneys argued Monday.

Reinforcing a hard-line view that’s prevailed in past court battles, the administration said again that the foreign-born detainees at Bagram Air Field lacked the habeas corpus rights that the U.S. Supreme Court has extended to those held at the American naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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My Comment: Thee detainees are not going to succeed. But this case reveals the Obama administration's policy of using Afghanistan to house prisoners and terror suspects .... instead of shipping them to Guantanamo.