A1 Ruling on Detention of Cubans The Supreme Court ruled that federal law prohibits the open-ended detention of Cubans who entered the United States during the Mariel boatlift in 1980 and who, despite crimes later committed in the United States, cannot be deported.
B6 TIGHTER RULES ON DETENTION -- The Justice Department has quietly tightened the rules that govern the detention of foreigners, letting the government keep a foreigner behind bars even after a federal immigration judge has ordered him to be released for lack of evidence.
The date marks the end of an 18-month sentence for breaking the rules of her detention when she offered shelter to an eccentric American man who swam, uninvited, to her lakeside home.
That seemed illogical to me, but I have learned not to question the rules of a detention facility no matter how old the "inmates" are.
Brad Wiegmann, a senior Justice Department national security lawyer, is to help lead a task force charged with recommending the legal rules for detention of future terrorism suspects.
"It is time for Congress, which represents the people, to clarify and set the rules for detention and interrogation of our enemies," he said.
Since then I've been absorbing the literature and interviewing civilian and military intelligence, detention and rule-of-law experts in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Afghanistan, trying to understand this capture-and-release business and how it fits into my larger investigation into the culture of corruption that is gripping Afghanistan and the U.S. war effort.
"Thankfully, we have three branches of government, and the final word belongs to the Supreme Court, which has yet to rule on the scope of detention authority," Romero said.
Although, constant rule breaking seems worthy of detention or writing lines.
