The Obama administration quietly announced today that they will no longer use the term "enemy combatant".
That was the term that Bush used during the former "war on terror" to (falsely) create a legal justification for detaining and/or torturing whomever he wanted-- foreign nationals and American citizens alike.
American citizens, you say? Remember Jose Padilla? He has an American citizen arrested on American soil and held indefinitely without legal recourse or access to a lawyer.
Nevertheless, Obama is still holding people indefinitely without charges-- so he can't claim the high ground just yet. But he has given the detainees an additional legal argument to challenge their status.
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