Palindrome wrote:
] ] US Administration officials are preparing long-range
] ] plans for indefinitely imprisoning suspected terrorists
] ] whom they do not want to set free or turn over to courts
] ] in the United States or other countries, The Washington
] ] Post reported Sunday.

This is strange. Xinhua is the Chinese State Press. Sometimes its a reasonable source but particularly on things like this it should be taken with a grain of salt. Google news doesn't show broad coverage of this story, and a lot of it is coming from places that might be considered "radical" such as Al-J, or the Washington Times.

It took me a while to find the original Washington Post story, which I'm linking here. It seems to blur the questions about Pentagon detention of enemy combatants and the CIA's renditions discussed here a couple days ago.

Reuters reported that "influential senators denounced the idea as probably unconstitutional."

"It's a bad idea. So we ought to get over it and we ought to have a very careful, constitutional look at this," Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on "Fox News Sunday."

Are we really having this debate again?

Administration planning for indefinite detention without trial.