New York Times Editorials
The New York Times outlined the case of Ali al-Marri in an editorial on 24 November 2008, titled "Indefinite Detention". It criticized the George W. Bush administration's enemy combatant doctrine, and called on the Supreme Court justices to "make clear that a president cannot trample on individual rights by imprisoning people indefinitely simply by asserting that they are tied to terrorism."
In another editorial of 8 December 2008, called "Tortured Justice", the Times editorial board wrote: "The extent of the damage to American liberties, and how lasting it will be, will be told in part by the outcome of two cases that are to be heard by the federal courts." They said the Obama administration would have to decide "whether to defend the indefensible when the case comes to trial".
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