Michael Ratner is a human-rights lawyer and president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR staff who recently met with Majid Khan in Guantanamo were not involved in writing this piece.
I wish this dark period of detention and torture were over. But rolling back the Military Commissions Act and restablishing the rule of law are monumental tasks.
For eight centuries, habeas corpus has shielded people from detention without trial. The Senate "compromise" denies this right -- and threatens the rule of law.
