President Barack Obama appears to be drifting to the right
of former President George W. Bush on detainee policy.
The Wall
Street Journal reports:
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R.,
S.C.), who met this week with White House Counsel Greg Craig
to discuss the administration's plans, said among the proposals
being studied is seeking authority for indefinite detentions,
with the imprimatur of some type of national-security court.
Sen. Graham said he wants
to work with the administration to pass legislation to increase
judicial oversight of military commissions, but noted the
legal difficulties that would arise.
"This is a difficult
question. How do you hold someone in prison without a trial
indefinitely?" Sen. Graham said.
An interesting question indeed.
It leaves this reporter wondering why a Republican senator
is asking it when a Democratic president was elected to ensure
that question, and others like it, would never have be asked
again.
