Obama to Sign Order for Indefinite Detention

From the Dec 22 headline at Democracynow.org

Obama to Sign Order for Indefinite Detention
President Obama is preparing to sign an executive order in the new year establishing the government’s right to indefinitely detain prisoners without charge or trial. This according to a report by ProPublica. The administration is expected to indefinitely hold at least 48 of the prisoners remaining at Guantánamo. Under the executive order, prisoners would be allowed to challenge their incarceration periodically. ProPublica reports that nearly two years after Obama’s pledge to close the prison at Guantánamo, more prisoners there are formally facing the prospect of lifelong detention and fewer are facing charges than the day Obama was elected.

This Washington Post article reviews how the order compares to the Bush-era policy:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2010/12/obama_embraces_indefi...

excerpt:
The Obama administration proposal differs from the Bush administration detention review process in that it would be more adversarial -- detainees would be represented by a lawyer, and the boards would be made up of more than just military officials. The process would be, as the New York Times' Charlie Savage describes it, basically a kind of "parole board" for suspected terrorists.

Laura Murphy of the ACLU told Peter Finn and Anne Kornblut that the changes amount to "a few due-process baubles" and that "our Constitution requires that we charge and prosecute people who are accused of crimes."

Related ACLU release.