Assim se confirmam duas tendências já aqui assinaladas: Obama governa para os media e em permanente campanha para a reeleição - a despeito das mais elementares regras da transparência - e não tem outro remédio, para não pôr a segurança dos EUA em maior perigo, senão aproximar as suas políticas, neste particular, das de Bush.
Abaixo ficam excertos da notícia tal como surgiu na edição de sábado do The Washington Post, construída através de fugas de informação cuidadosamente vertidas pela própria administração, informação entretanto confirmada pela Associated Press:
«Obama administration officials (...) are crafting language for an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely, according to three senior government officials with knowledge of White House deliberations.O WP esclarece as razões pelas quais esses detidos não podem ser julgados nos tribunais comuns, e não é, pelo menos não é só, devido à suspeita de utilização de métodos coercivos de interrogatório:
Such an order would embrace claims by former president George W. Bush that certain people can be detained without trial for long periods under the laws of war. (...)
(...) The Justice Department has declined to comment on the prospects for a long-term detention system while internal reviews of Guantanamo detainees' cases are underway. (...)
(...) In a May speech, President Obama broached the need for a system of long-term detention (...).
(...) In his May speech, the president outlined five strategies the administration would use to deal with them: criminal trials, revamped military tribunals, transfers to other countries, releases and continued detention.
(...) Three months into the Justice Department's reviews, several officials involved said they have found themselves agreeing with conclusions reached years earlier by the Bush administration: As many as 90 detainees cannot be charged or released. (...)»
«[H]alf of the cases, the officials said, present the greatest difficulty because these detainees cannot be prosecuted in federal court or military commissions. In many cases the evidence against them is classified, has been provided by foreign intelligence services or has been tainted by the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques.»
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