International Law

Disappearing Right

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

Sadly, the American government still openly asserts the right to disappear people extrajudicially, quite contrary to what Obama said when he was a candidate. As Greenwald explains, it looks like the only reason the Americans are closing Guantanamo is that the inmates have too many constitutional rights to court hearings there, as opposed to people disappeared to the Bagram site in Afghanistan.

I wonder what Obama himself, not someone filing a brief for his Department of Justice, would have to say about these apparent contradictions in his position. Someone should ask him.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).