Obama Administration Seeks To Deny Bagram Prisoners Access To U.S. Courts

"Guantánamo was the Bush administration's effort to do an end run around the Constitution, and the Obama administration is now essentially using Bagram as a way to do an end run around Guantánamo and the constitutional right of habeas corpus found to apply there," said Jonathan Hafetz, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project. "Simply shipping detainees from around the world to an alternative destination is not a solution and flouts the principles laid down by the Supreme Court." 

Detainees at the Bagram prison include non-Afghans who were initially arrested and detained outside of Afghanistan but who continue to be denied full legal rights because the U.S