The Little Things Matter

While it is unclear as to the actually ramifications of doing so the DOJ announced over the weekend that the Obama Administration would no longer be using the classification of 'enemy combatant' that the previous administration had invented and made so much use of.

Some observers are reporting that this amounts to little more than a change in language, but even such a change is an important one. As is the Obama Administration's claim that the authority to hold prisoners in Guantanamo is derived from authorities granted by Congress and the international laws of war as opposed to because the President said so.

The DOJ release can be read in full here.