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Half the Guantanamo inmates have been cleared for release... chirp chirp.....
People that were picked up were interviewed, interviewed again, and interviewed yet again. The only people sent to Guantanimo Bay are the ones that were believed to have been of real intel value. You know...like the ones we are still picking up these days and sending to Bagram. And yet...the sounds of crickets chirping...
Since half the inmates have been found not to be a threat, but none of their countries will take them back, and most of any evidence against the rest is inadmissible in a civilian court, President Obama has very few options.
Half the Guantanamo inmates have been cleared for release... chirp chirp.....
Yeah...they were "interviewed". I'm sure it was fair and impartial and built only on information gathering. I mean, the government wouldn't lie to us to cover up their misdeeds, right?
There are more Bagram's out there than we care to admit, but until we can know about it and control the government, they will persist. Why do we need secret prisons? How do we have the authority to arrest citizens of other countries in other countries and hold them in jails in various places around the world? Where did that power come from? Because we call someone a "terrorist"? Please, government is not acting properly right now and it's going to bite us in the ass; it always does.
You need them for the same reason you need the soldiers out there doing the job they are doing. Because there are evil ****s out there that dont play by the rules and will kill as many people as they can in the name of their glorious cause. And I dont see too many gentle folks in this country rushing over to try to 'reason' with them. I guess those folks recognize that twisted ****s that rape and behead 12 year old schoolgirls in India in the glorious name of Jihad might not be receptive. Far better to take that little impotent moral superiority stance...slap on another COEXIST bumper sticker...and leave the heavy lifting to the big kids. Until you are part of a better solution...you arent even a part of the equation.
But we play by the rules or else what is the point? We have all of these people in custody around the world with proof of their guilt (apparently). Why, then, can we not try them?
Their own countries won't have them back. Why is that, you think? What should we do with them?Since half the inmates have been found not to be a threat, but none of their countries will take them back, and most of any evidence against the rest is inadmissible in a civilian court, President Obama has very few options.
Thus either the evidence could not be disclosed without revealing classified material or it would be inadmissible under the evidentiary rules at the heart of traditional Anglo-American jurisprudence. The first problem could be remedied with closed court sessions, as it has been many times in the past. As for the second, why would evidence against a prisoner be inadmissible? Among the likely reasons is that it was obtained by torture inflicted by the CIA or one of the CIA’s outsourced torturers under the program known as “extraordinary rendition.”
Traditionally in the United States, when the government cannot bear its burden of proof before a court, it must set a suspect free. But the so-called “war on terror” changed all that for people arbitrarily branded terrorist suspects or enemy combatants. Carrying on the policy established by Bush, the Obama administration takes the position that someone felt to be a threat to national security can be denied a trial and held prisoner indefinitely. Nothing is more un-American.
Naturally, Republican hawks love Obama’s order. Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, who held hearings on domestic Islamic radicalism, praised him for ratifying Bush’s policy: “I commend the Obama Administration for issuing this Executive Order. The bottom line is that it affirms the Bush Administration policy that our government has the right to detain dangerous terrorists until the cessation of hostilities.”
today: KSM to be tried by military commission at Gitmo; Holder set to make announcement today - Political Hotsheet - CBS News
how do YOU spell s-u-r-r-e-n-d-e-r?
Obama failed to overcome these obsticles (sic) and failed to do the right and moral thing and adhere to rule of law and our ideals and guidng principles.
I know the person who opened this travesty holds no respsonsibility. And certainly, republicans whop fear mongered concerning moving prisoners here and trying these people hold no blame
the fear mongering seemed to be pretty bi-partison
that is my point I think.
that's what it looks like
ask KERRY, DIFI, BOXER, SANDERS, WEBB, WYDEN, ROCKEFELLER, CARPER, INOUYE...
Wait...you arent implying these democrats all knew and were briefed about the goings on at GITMO all along are you??? Or that some of them actually asked if there wasnt MORE that they could do to make them talk? Why...thats...thats...just...impossible... and CERTAINLY doesnt at all fit with now stated stance on GITMO and terrorists. Why...if that were true it would show them all to be liars and their outrage to be pure faux! :shock:
Well, there you go, the idoit who onpened has no responsibility. :roll:
the idoit who onpened has no responsibility.