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The administration has already said it will keep holding about 50 detainees without trial.
Months later, after Afghan officials maintained that they could lawfully hold on to wartime detainees without trial, Mr. Obama and Mr. Karzai agreed to resume the transfers.
Last year, Amnesty International reported that Assad's forces had "held thousands of detainees without trial, often in conditions that amounted to enforced disappearance".
Last May, when Mr. Obama announced that he would continue holding some detainees without trial, he pledged to "work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime so that our efforts are consistent with our values and our Constitution".
When that happens, he said, difficult legal questions will arise about such matters as whether and for how long the United States may keep holding terrorism detainees without trial as wartime prisoners.
One of the reasons that Guantánamo is such a blot on America's reputation and such a good recruiting tool is the un-American and arbitrary detention of detainees without trial.
The US's 10,000-strong handover has now swollen the numbers of security detainees held without trial to a staggering 30,000.
He also suggested that even after the armed struggle ended, there could be a need to hold some detainees legally without trial for a period of time, as happened after World War II.
The effort to create a complete legal black hole at Guantánamo had failed, and Bagram remained, in the government's view, a last, best chance for holding detainees indefinitely without trial or judicial review.
The government has said it plans to hold many of the detainees indefinitely without trial.
He has also confessed to providing WikiLeaks with two videos of airstrikes in which civilians and journalists were killed; files about detainees' being held without trial at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; hundreds of thousands of incident reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars; and about 250,000 diplomatic cables.
