Seeking to distance itself from the Bush administration, the Justice Department is omitting ‘enemy combatant’ from its filing that defines detention of prisoners at Guantánamo.
BY WILLIAM DOUGLAS AND CAROL ROSENBERG

crosenberg@MiamiHerald.comWASHINGTON — Breaking with the George W. Bush White House, the Barack Obama administration on Friday dropped the term ”enemy combatant” for suspected terrorists and said international law governed the detention of terrorism suspects at the Guantánamo Bay prison, which Obama intends to close. Read the rest of this entry »