My column this week discussed Obama’s plans to ask Congress for a legal authorization for preventive detention. Now Glenn Greenwald reports that Obama has opted instead to claim the powers Bush asserted to do it without a special law (though with slightly different rationale).
Greenwald’s conclusion is that this is a very small victory, but a victory, preferable to having the concept of preventive detention built into our law.

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