Posted on 11/05/2008 11:50:42 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
As a senator and candidate, Mr. Obama voted and campaigned against some of the Bush administration's most aggressive surveillance, detention and interrogation policies, including the secret prison network run by the Central Intelligence Agency.
The Obama administration will "take an immediate interest in what's actually going on there," said Prof. Laurence Tribe, who once taught Mr. Obama at Harvard Law School and now is among his legal advisers. "I'm certain that a rather bright light would be turned to Guantanamo right away."
Still, closing the offshore prison -- as Mr. Obama pledged to do -- will require a series of decisions on vexing issues such as the prisoners who have been approved for release, but whom no other country is willing to accept. ....
Mr. Obama has also supported increased oversight of the secret CIA detention program and efforts to restrict the CIA to interrogation techniques used by the military, which would prohibit waterboarding.
When it comes to domestic security, Mr. Obama has said he would end the Bush administration's preference for conducting surveillance outside of court oversight. He said he would ask his attorney general to conduct a comprehensive review of domestic surveillance and would appoint a senior adviser for domestic intelligence. ....
The American Civil Liberties Union has already assembled a proposal urging Mr. Obama to issue three executive orders on his first day on the job. The orders would close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, "cease and prohibit the use of torture and abuse" in CIA interrogations, and end the practice of sending detainees to countries that conduct harsher interrogations than are allowable under U.S. law.
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BS - Democrat’s don’t make difficult choices anymore. They whine about the problems until it falls in their lap. Then they screw it up and blame Republicans.
And the best part is, the People buy right into it.
This is where my antennas go up. I see the word “difficult”, that means he has no clue what to do with this. However, can’t allow this water boarding to go on, so close Gitmo, give those prisoners without home countries a visa, some subsidy and let ‘em stay in Noo Yawk for as long as they want. Problem solved, right? Right?
Hey WSJ, why didn’t you print this article BEFORE the election?
If Hussein had had to address Guantanamo during the debate he would have looked like a stuttering fool.
No problem, the Mediascum and the Demagogues have just proved that they know how to be a lot tougher on “Joe the Plumber” than on any terrorists.
We don’t need any more counter-terrorism b/c they’ve found a better way to expend staff and resources.
No surveillance for terrorists but they can rake through every detail in JTP’s private life b/c it serves their partisan interests.
Laurence Tribe? Laurence Tribe is a legal adviser to Obama?
Dear God, help us.
Why didn’t McCain or one of the conservative talking heads bring it up? Why didn’t O’Reilly ask Obama about it? Hey! Why didn’t the MSM ask him about it?
Welcome to the new reality, moonbat country. God help us all. Pray for our troops.
They’ll all be offered teaching jobs at American universities where they can spend the rest of their days denouncing America and getting paid for it, just like terrorist Bill Ayers.
McCain also pledged to close Guantanamo. There are problems associated with shutting it down but it is nowhere near worth the problems it has caused us.
They are the people who get it.
The rest of the people who live in our Republic are Sheeple.
Hell, several million of them are something straight out of Jonestown.
Really? What problems has it caused us?
He will have a couple of thorny issues. First, he will start getting REAL intelligence briefings, and he will see what we are up against, and how often GWB thwarted attacks against us. Second, he will know that if he screws that up, HE will be blamed for it, and rightly so. Maybe not by the MSM, but certainly by History and those who write it.
Hey, dufuss. What problems?
The left tried to destroy victory over terrorism.
troll.
The world, especially Europe, has focused on it as a symbol of abuses of human rights by this country. The stories and the image are false but that doesn't really matter, the world is set to believe them. It is far easier and more effective to dismantle the camp than to deal with inflamed opinion around the globe.
I can think of at least one other instance where this country did something, at the moment seemingly justified, which has engrained itself into the public psyche to the point that it affects individual and public perceptions of the United States here in this country and also in every classroom in every country of the world.
Care to hazard a guess what it was? Hint: Name the 3 great sins of this country and you will find it.
Mike Mullen is a leftist?
Robert Gates is a leftist?
Or are you a moron?
And, Man, they got the man for the job, didn’t they! I will tell them to go choke on their choice.
Are you a Brit?
Hardly. American farm boy, gone to seed in the big city.
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