Tim Golden reports for The New York Times that there seem to be two, prominent, sides within the Bush administration regarding the treatment of detainees (related to the GWOT). In a memo, Gordon R. England and and Philip D. Zelikow “urged the administration to seek Congressional approval for its detention policies.”
Furthermore:
They called for a return to the minimum standards of treatment in the Geneva Conventions and for eventually closing the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The time had come, they said, for suspects in the 9/11 plot to be taken out of their secret prison cells and tried before military tribunals.
Tim goes on to write:
The recommendations of the paper, which has not previously been disclosed, included several of the major policy shifts that President Bush laid out in a White House address on Sept. 6, five officials who read the document said. But the memorandum’s fate underscores the deep, long-running conflicts over detention policy that continued to divide the administration even as it pushed new legislation through Congress last week on the handling of terrorism suspects.
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