The extension of detention time was essential to "balance the scales of justice", said Mr MacAskill.
The law is unclear whether detention begins from the time a person is arrested or when a detention order is issued, the council said.
For example, the BOP unilaterally abolished the shock incarceration program, spending unnecessary millions by replacing sentence reductions and increased home detention with prison time for nonviolent offenders with minimal criminal history.
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The justice secretary explained the bill would enshrine the right to legal advice before questioning in stature, increase the time for detention without charge from six hours to 12 hours and up to 24 hrs in the most serious circumstances with appropriate safeguards.
They include a sum of money in 500-euro banknotes and two wigs, one of which he was apparently wearing at the time of his detention.
His detention was protested at the time by a Saudi dissident group known as the Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights, according to U.S. officials.
"At the time of their detention, neither the Supreme Court nor this court had ever held that aliens captured on foreign soil and detained beyond sovereign U.S. territory had any constitutional rights, " the court said.
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At the time of his detention, Mr Fogle was wearing a blond wig and reportedly carrying a large sum of money, as well as technical devices and written instructions for the Russian agent he had tried to recruit.
His lawyer successfully argued that he had spent the maximum time in prison under temporary detention.
Lawmaker Tzachi Hanegbi, head of parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee during the time of the prisoner's detention in 2010, told Israel Radio on Sunday his committee was frequently briefed by Israel's intelligence bodies on matters of national security, but he was never told about the prisoner.
He compared the idea with measures introduced by the Labour government - such as longer periods of pre-charge detention - which he said were justified at the time on security grounds but had proved to be damaging.
That Obama would attempt this highly unpopular transfer yet again is further symptomatic of his failure as a wartime Commander-in-Chief, shown this time through his unwillingness to use military detention -- a tool fundamental to the prosecution of a war -- despite clear authority from Congress to do so.
If you say we are going to preserve the liberties of this country and the case for extending pre-charge detention which used to be forty eight hours remember - long time ago.
During the negotiations, the U.S. proposed fully transferring the prison, known officially as the Parwan Detention Center, to Afghan control within six months, giving the U.S. time to alter how it collects intelligence from detainees.
Convicted Whitewater figure Susan McDougal, serving time for civil contempt, was moved Tuesday night from a Los Angeles County jail to the Metropolitan Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, the U.S. Marshal's Service said.
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