From TPM-

In a filing today with the federal District Court for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice submitted a new standard for the government's authority to hold detainees at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility. The definition does not rely on the President's authority as Commander-in-Chief independent of Congress's specific authorization. It draws on the international laws of war to inform the statutory authority conferred by Congress. It provides that individuals who supported al Qaeda or the Taliban are detainable only if the support was substantial. And it does not employ the phrase "enemy combatant."

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

Doesn't this make us all feel better?!?!

 

 

They are NOT dropping the use of the concept of an enemy combatant. They are just deciding not to call these particular people at Gitmo by that description.

 

I'll change the thread title.