Asked for reaction to the news, Commander Kirk Lippold (Ret.), former Commander aboard the U.S.S. Cole when it was bombed on October 12, 2000,
told ABC News that he was “concerned” about the move.
“For some reason the administration says what’s been expressed through the legislature is not sufficient,” Lippold said of the military commissions,
which he said had “undergone extensive legal and legislative review...
They need to allow the process to go forward.”
” In a way, the President tied his administration’s own hands, requiring his Secretary of Defense to drop the charges.
The executive order President Obama signed on closing the Guantanamo Detention Facilities states that “all proceedings” in the US Military Commissions must be “halted”:”
After Tapper’s Britt Humeworthy performance at the White House press briefing today and this-he’s going to vault right up there on Obama’s Enemie’s List.