Government
Jul. 13, 2011
Is Obama creating 'floating Guantanamos?'
The capture of a Somali citizen by the U.S. government on terrorist charges spotlights the dangers of hidden detention.
Stephen F. Rohde
Email: rohdevictr@aol.com
Stephen is a retired civil liberties lawyer and contributor to the Los Angeles Review of Books, is author of American Words for Freedom and Freedom of Assembly.
While the Obama administration is receiving well-deserved praise for charging Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, a Somali citizen, before a federal court rather than a military tribunal, too little attention is being paid to the serious questions surrounding the administration's capturing and interrogating Warsame incommunicado for more than two months on a U.S. naval ship. Under our domestic and international law, he should have been treated like a civilian criminal suspect and brought to the Un...
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