Ex-US attorney to prosecute suspects at Guantanamo (Obama politicizing GITMO tribunals)

ap ^ | 1/22/2009 | HEATHER CLARK

[tobyhill]

Former U.S. attorney David Iglesias, who was among nine U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006, has a new job prosecuting suspected terrorists held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Iglesias has been hired as a prosecutor in the Office of Military Commissions and has been reactivated in the Navy as a captain.

"It's the most important work I've ever done in my 25 years as a lawyer," Iglesias said Wednesday. "Our focus is laser sharp. It's just on terrorist cases and nothing else."

Iglesias' announcement of his job comes as the nascent Obama administration circulated a draft executive order that calls for closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and reviewing the cases of the nearly 245 inmates still held there. The order also would suspend pending war crimes cases for 120 days.

[MathDoc]

"Our focus is laser sharp. It's just on terrorist cases and nothing else."

Their focus is certainly not on national security. I hope our military is smart enough not to capture any more terrorists; catch-and-release is too risky for our soldiers as well as for the innocents who will be killed by the batch of terrorists that Obama is about to release. Put them down in the field, like rabid dogs, and make sure the after action reports unambiguously justify that action.

[mtnwmn]

I feel better already ;o)

[dead]

This is all going to be so relentlessly political.

First they will identify the person there who has the best combination of sob story and slightly sketchy evidence. They'll throw out that evidence, declare him vindicated and dump the scumbucket onto the streets of Detroit. He will become the moonbat poster boy they can tell themselves they liberated from the evil Bush regime by their brave votes. He probably won't commit any new terrorist act, because he'll be too busy appearing on Oprah, Leno, and Larry King and will be too well known to get away with anything.

Then Obama will find some other guy who is a dirtbag of the first order (no shortage there) with a rock solid case and he'll throw the book at him to pretend that he's being tough on terrorism.

And the media will cheerleader every move as evidence that he is the actual savior they told us he is.

And when the newly emboldened terrorist cells take out a building in Miami, it'll still be Bush's fault, because nobody's mad at Obama.

[Just mythoughts]

Won’t surprise me if they turn these trials over to their ‘international’ courts. That system that Sandra O’Connor was fond of using as she made Supreme Court decisions.

[cookcounty]

"In September, about a month before Iglesias began his new job, the Justice Department report concluded he was fired after Republican politicians and activists, including former Sen. Pete Domenici, complained about his handling of voter fraud complaints and public corruption cases in New Mexico."

Well, well, well. Voter fraud and public corruption by Democrats (one named "Richardson"). He dragged his feet..........
.........and he got a new job, plus everlasting love and adoration from his new bosses.

....Isn't this called "pay-to-play"?

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Won’t surprise me if they turn these trials over to their ‘international’ courts.

I don't think they'll do that. They talk that sort of talk to appease their America-hating moonbat wing, but they know, real-world, they can't do it.

If they thought the "world court" types would only condemn Bush, they'd sell him out, but they want to condemn the whole of American foreign policy.

If Obama sets the precendent of letting the world court handle US justice matters, he runs the risk of some US soldier on some third world peace keeping mission getting indicted for something on his watch, and he can't turn over a soldier to them.

Obama will pay only lip service to the whole international justice idea - he needs to protect himself politically.

[Just mythoughts]

I don't think they'll do that. They talk that sort of talk to appease their America-hating moonbat wing, but they know, real-world, they can't do it. If they thought the "world court" types would only condemn Bush, they'd sell him out, but they want to condemn the whole of American foreign policy. If Obama sets the precendent of letting the world court handle US justice matters, he runs the risk of some US soldier on some third world peace keeping mission getting indicted for something on his watch, and he can't turn over a soldier to them. Obama will pay only lip service to the whole international justice idea - he needs to protect himself politically.

Bamb's whole policy is to elevate the 'world' as one community. And Bama Inc., is now their reality and they are in charge. Bama and Murtha could care less about what happens to a US soldier and who better to handles matters of military than UN under a peace keeping force.

By the time Bama Inc., instills their gayness there won't be much of a military to worry about getting tried in a military installation let along in their 'world' court.... Course they would have need then to reinstate their draft so the 'sacrifice' would be shared equally.

The 'world' is on the march to a global government and like those most fit Animals in Animal Farm, are laying claim now for their stakes in a 'new' peace and prosperity filled environment.