Indefinite Detention - Judith Butler

"On March 21, 2002, the Department of Defense, in conjunction with
the Department of Justice, issued  new guidelines for the military
tribunals in which some of the prisoners detained domestically
and in the Guantanamo Bay would be tried by the US. What has
been striking about these detentions from the start, and continues
to be alarming, is that the right to legal counsel and, indeed, the
right to a trial has not been granted to most of these detainees. The
new military tribunals are, in fact, not courts of law to which the
detainees from the war against Afghanistan are entitled. Some will
be tried, and others will not, and at the time of this writing, plans
have just been announced to try 6 of the 650 prisoners who have
remained in captivity there for more than a year. The rights to counsel,
means of appeal, and repatriation stipulated by the Geneva Convention
have not been granted to any of the detainees in Guantanamo, and
although the US has announced its recognition of the Taliban as “covered”
by the Geneva Accord, it had made clear that even the Taliban do not
have prisoner of war status; as, indeed, no prisoner in Guantanamo
has..."