I think Thomas Jefferson would agree. From the original airing of grievances:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

The Bush administration set up its annual review board system during its unsuccessful fight to prevent the Supreme Court from granting the detainees a right to have their cases reviewed by federal judges, who could ultimately order their release if the evidence against them was weak.

The Obama administration's proposal, by contrast, would supplement such habeas corpus hearings in court. While judges would determine whether it was lawful to hold someone as a wartime detainee -- because he is part of Al Qaeda or the Taliban -- the review boards would determine whether it was necessary to do so, one official explained.

and

The Obama proposal, by contrast, would establish a "periodic review board" drawn from many agencies, not just the military, and modeled on a parole board, one official said. Detainees would be represented by lawyers and would have greater access to some of the evidence against them.

Among the details yet to be determined are how often each detainee's files would be reviewed, and how often he would receive a full-blown hearing.

Sounds more or less like a done deal in terms of excluding periodic judicial review.

Sad but true, too many American's have bought into the idea that even a false sense of security is worth any price.

I know it's beating a dead horse but this is exactly why these policies needed to be fought when they were implemented.

Once power has been given, it becomes very difficult to take it way. In all likihood it will get worse, not better.

One of the things that has been of increasing concern to me is the effort undertaken to figure out how to "legalize" actions and policies that used to be assumed to be illegal - and it does not give me any comfort at all to see that the Obama administration is dedicating itself to more of this kind of how-can-we-make-it-legal argumentation.

The collateral effect, of course, is to make Democrats complicit in these things and eliminate much of the demand for accountability we used to be able to make - we may not have been getting the accountability, but at least to some extent, we had more credibility to pursue it.  Now, we have no credibility and little to protect us from our rights being summarily disregarded.