Three events occurred this week that will impact the future of Guantanamo detainees. The first occurred on Monday, when top officials in the Obama administration held the first meeting of the Guantanamo Detainee Review Task Force to review options for closing Guantanamo without compromising national security and foreign policy interests. Then, on Tuesday, a military judge accepted guilty pleas from five of the detainees, defying President Obama's executive order to halt military commission proceedings pending the task force's report and an executive decision on the next steps. Yesterday, in a filing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., lawyers with the Obama administration abandoned the use of the term "enemy combatant" and advocated for a "new standard" to authorize indefinite detentions at Guantanamo. The Justice Department argued that the President may lawfully authorize the detention of individuals who "substantially supported" al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks pursuant to statutory authority granted by Congress in 2001, as informed by the international laws of war. Civil rights advocates were unimpressed with the government's proclaimed higher legal standard, calling the wording "old wine in new bottles." These three events stem from the larger, unresolved problem: What legal options are on the table for the continued detention, prosecution, transfer, release, or other disposition of the detainees and future non-state actors who commit crimes against U.S. interests? More