Spencer Ackerman points to a press briefing with General Stanley McChrystal where he throws cold water on the idea of using Bagram for detentions of terror detainees from outside Afghanistan:
A year ago we were in the detention business and we really didn't have a plan for transitioning that to the Afghans. Today the deputy commander of our Joint Task Force 435 is an Afghan officer, and we're on track to hand over all detention operations at the defense — or the detention facility in Parwan to Afghans in January 2011. That will constitute all our detention operations.
It's good news if McChrystal's take is accurate, but even if it isn't trying to turn Bagram into the new Gitmo is not without legal peril.
-- A. Serwer
