Enemy combatants

In a recent court decision, the gov't plan of detaining enemy combatants indefinitely without charges was dealt a blow when a federal judge ruled that terror suspects can petition for their release. This whole issue will be tied up in court for years. One of my biggest criticisms of the Bush administration is that they always knew it was a possibility that a court or the supreme court could rule that the gov't could not hold prisoners indefinitely without a trial or charges, but yet there was literally no contingency plan to fall back on if there was such a ruling (and there has been such a ruling). If a CEO made such a decision he would be out on his rear and sued a billion times in a heartbeat. But you don't hear that anyone lost their job for this remarkable oversight.

Read the story here:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/10792030.htm?1c