A third executive order institutes a wide-ranging review of future detention policy.

The detention policy, pervasive surveillance and a crackdown on religious practice are seen by some as an attempt at cultural erasure.

Yet officials struggled to explain how the fate of the detainees could be determined successfully if a detention policy was not in place.

There was a real need to publish the detention policies in the present context.

Another order established a task force to lead a review of detention policies, procedures and individual cases.