{"id":718604,"date":"2010-04-16T09:16:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opiniojuris.org\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:19:24","slug":"john-bellinger-on-continuity-and-change-in-detention-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/718604","title":{"rendered":"John Bellinger on Continuity and Change in Detention Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>by Kenneth Anderson <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former DOS Legal Adviser (and a path-breaking guest blogger here at OJ when in that role a couple of years ago) John Bellinger has a short opinion column out at the CFR site, April 14, 2010 (<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/21895\/for_obama_vexing_detainee_decisions_loom.html\">corrected link, I hope!<\/a>), discussing continuity and change in US detention policy on counterterrorism. \u00a0John takes up a range of issues, from trials to repatriation and more, and concludes that there is mostly continuity with the second Bush term. \u00a0I agree. \u00a0It is a good, short, robust summary of the issues involved.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Update:<\/em> In addition to John&#8217;s piece,\u00a0Rick Pildes and David Golove have a calm, reasoned discussion at Balkinization on\u00a0<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.cfr.org\/publication\/21895\/for_obama_vexing_detainee_decisions_loom.html\">ways to deal with terrorism related detentions and trials<\/a>. \u00a0They call for an approach that mingles aspects of criminal law and armed conflict law. \u00a0They emphasize the need for a legislated system. \u00a0It is true, of course, that I am an advocate of a national security court approach to both detention and trial, so I am predisposed to some form of the \u201cmelding\u201d view, and am also strongly committed to legislating a system for all this \u2014 but regardless of where you start, I think this is an excellent discussion.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/opiniojurisfeed\/~4\/arvBMiG-uvs\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kenneth Anderson Former DOS Legal Adviser (and a path-breaking guest blogger here at OJ when in that role a couple of years ago) John Bellinger has a short opinion column out at the CFR site, April 14, 2010 (corrected link, I hope!), discussing continuity and change in US detention policy on counterterrorism. \u00a0John takes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2685,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30Wo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2685"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819576,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718604\/revisions\/819576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}