A bus passes a fence topped with razor wire at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, earlier this year.
Washington Post
Op-Ed
The Obama administration deserves credit for proposing changes to the detainee review process at Bagram Air Base. In theory, the changes should increase the likelihood that only those who should be held will be imprisoned there.
But the administration inexcusably continues to resist necessary reforms for those detainees — among the longest held — who were captured beyond the Afghan battlefield. It also leaves open the possibility of future renditions to Bagram of terrorist suspects captured outside Afghanistan. On this front, the new proposal risks duplicating the lawlessness that came to mar the detentions at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
