President Obama will not rule out detaining terror suspects indefinitely, although he says it “gives me huge pause.”
Obama, while saying he isn’t comfortable using executive orders to detain prisoners, wouldn’t rule it out during an interview with The Associated Press.
But he also said there are some detainees who don’t fall neatly into existing categories for criminal prosecution in the United States or under international law. He said dealing with them is going to be one of the biggest challenges of his administration.
