Posted on 01/22/2009 9:45:46 AM PST by NormsRevenge
President Obama on Thursday ordered the Guantanamo detention facility in Cuba to be closed within a year and that all CIA prisons be shut down.
On his second full day in office, Obama wasted little time in tackling several controversial anti-terrorism policies put in place under the Bush administration.
In addition to closing the Guantanamo facility and the CIA prisons, the new president also ordered a review of detainee policies and interrogation techniques.
This is me following through on not just a commitment I made during the campaign, but I think an understanding that dates back to our Founding Fathers, that we are willing to observe core standards of conduct, not just when its easy, but also when its hard, Obama stated.
The president also issued a memorandum instructing a review of the governments case against and the status of detainee Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri.
With those three executive orders and this memorandum the message that we are sending around the world is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle against violence and terrorism, and we are going to do so vigilantly; we are going to do so effectively; and we are going to do so in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals, Obama said.
We think that it is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world, he added. We intend to win this fight. Were going to win it on our terms.
Well, Obama has just sealed the fates of any terrorists captured on the battlefield from this point forward.
With him all but guaranteeing these animals safe passage and haven by the US government, most of them will never survive their capture to see it.
From now on, the rule is, “take no prisoners”.
Here’s what he said and how he said it...right Greg?
uh uh uh
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/01/halting-pres-obama-signs-executive.html
and oh by the way. PRESIDENT Bush already ordered the CIA sites...closed....in 2006
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2006/09/08/Bush_orders_CIA_black_sites_closed/UPI-57671157717321/
No, just the names and addresses of every military guard at Gitmo and every CIA employee involved in terrorist interrogation
LMAO!!! Can you believe this scumbag mentioned the “Founding Fathers”??
stroke of a pen law of the land, pretty cool.. allahu akhbar!
or something like that
Further proof that he is a Muslim that hates America. And we thought Klinton was bad.
It makes so much sense to spend millions of dollars to put them up at a different facility where they are closer to our general population than to continue using a facility that already works and simply modify the management — which Bush already did.
Maj. John André, late of the British Army, would disagree with Mr. Obama, if he had not been hanged as a spy by the Continental Army in 1780. You see, Maj. André was caught in civilian clothes, rather than a military uniform, carrying papers intended for Gen. Benedict Arnold.
The understanding that actually dates back to our Founding Fathers is that enemy agents who don't wear uniforms or who give false names do not have the rights of regular enemy soldiersand certainly *snort* not the rights of citizensare as such are most appropriately executed as spies. Then again, I realize that the man in charge then was named Washington, and although he knew André and liked him personally, he knew his duty.
Maybe Rush can buy it and turn into "Club Gitmo."
Maybe Rush can buy it and turn it into "Club Gitmo."
Location is not the issue per se but insofar as a location here in the U.S. means trying them in regular federal courts it becomes critical. To wit,
Beyond those risks to individual American civilians IMO these things do not rate the normal notions of due process, legal rights and judicial precedent! Ever!
Justice Robert Jackson noted (1947?) that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. Boy do I agree with that.
You said it in Post 51!
As long as the usurper Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro from Indonesia is squatting in our White House he will try to pay off his friends. But little does he know that ANYTHING he does or signs means NOTHING since he is not legally the President!
And then we had one messed up oath followed by another oath taken without a bible. Funny to watch all the talk about the oaths......when it means NOTHING anyway! He is still Barack Hussien Obama aka Barry Soetoro from Indonesia. :)
Now that the federal government employees at the very top, et al are willing to let millions of other Americans die (namely us) to avoid being "mean" to indescribably fiendish entities who seek to do the killing -- I have no compunction expressing that let them be present at ground zero when it happens instead of us.
Right up until some liberal judge releases them because they were never Mirandized, were not charged with any crimes and would not be permitted to face their accusers in a US Court.
You are right, engrpat.
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