A guard leans on a fencepost as a Guantanamo detainee jogs inside the exercise yard at Camp 5 detention centre, at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Jan. 21, 2009. Brennan Linsley/Pool/ReutersFrom Wall Street Journal:
Preventive detention will continue to have a place in the war on terror.
When President Barack Obama declassified and released legal memoranda from the Department of Justice, he opened the door to a drawn-out battle over the Bush administration's use of coercive interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. We believe that any subsequent attempts to subject those who provided such legal advice to prosecutions are a mistake. They will have a chilling effect on the candor with which future government officials provide their best counsel.
The country must move on from debates about the past, because pressing questions about U.S. detention policy in the war on terror requires us to make difficult choices -- and to make them soon.
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