DOWN BY LAW: Military Detainees in the War on Terror
387 views · Published 19 September 2008 · 26:48 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Hoover Institution · 2008 · News & Politics
Do enemy combatants in the war on terror have any legal rights? The United States now holds more than 650 persons captured during the war on terrorism at our naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba. The government is holding them indefinitely, without charging them and without offering them access to American courts or legal counsel. Is this legal? Do federal courts have jurisdiction in this matter, or do these detainees exist completely outside of the American legal system?
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