Posted on 01/29/2009 9:13:17 AM PST by IrishMike
A military judge has refused the Obama administration's request to delay proceeding for 120 days in the case of a detainee held at the U.S. naval prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who is accused of planning the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole warship, an al-Qaeda strike that killed 17 service members and injured 50 others.
The decision throws into some disarray the administration's plan to buy some time as it reviews individual detainee cases as part of its plan to close the prison. The Pentagon may now be forced to withdraw the charges against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Saudi citizen of Yemeni descent. In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors to seek 120-day suspensions of legal proceedings in the cases of 21 detainees who have been charged.
The request was quickly granted in other cases when prosecutors told military judges that "the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically."
But Judge James Pohl, an Army colonel, said he found the government's reasoning "unpersuasive."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Good for the judge’s back bone, bad if Obama finds his way around this bump is his road - and doesn’t allow the pentagon to prosecute.
Looks like everyone is rebelling...
He’s the commander-in-chief that’s how. The courts are separate and don’t have to listen to Obama, but the military is under his thumb. They will do as they are told.
that’s my response too!
Isn’t a call from the Pentagon or the President to suspend military judicial proceedings that have already begun “undue command influence”?
Owned.
Let's see if Obama cherishes an independent judiciary or exerts command influence - an impeachable offense, no?
The United States is at very high risk of a terrorist attack within the NEXT 365 days.
The RADMUZZIES smell weakness and they will act, Thanks Pres. Obama we will all be united soon, amazed at the change—yeah—the change of THREATCON UPWARD.
He’s the commander-in-chief that’s how. The courts are separate and don’t have to listen to Obama, but the military is under his thumb. They will do as they are told.....
No, he is the Usurper in Chief.
They need to have the SCOTUS determine if the military must follow the orders of a person not eligible to be POTUS under the Constitution.
This is what all the Natural Born Citizen lawsuits are about.
And it will only get worse the longer Obama refuses to show his long form birth certificate.
BTTT
I don't think so.
The courts are separate and don’t have to listen to Obama, but the military is under his thumb. They will do as they are told.
I believe that Military Judges are precluded from being influenced in any decision by their commanders or people above them. To be subject to influence is to undermine the entire scheme of Military justice. The only power Obama has in these proceedings is his pardon power. He can pardon the terrorists, but he can't control their prosecution from the Oval office.
If he were to fire this judge for refusing to stop a prosecution, Obama could be impeached. Remember that Nixon was impeached in part for firing the independent prosecutor Archibald Cox.
I thought we were agreeing to disagree? You can’t REALLY disagree! Can you?
Obama’s whole career when he was teaching was how to get around laws and get the results anyway.
Just look up the test questions he asked the students, all of them were how to defend someone when the law was clearly against their wishes, it’s blatant this is his M.O..
Whhhh whhhhhhho wwwhhhooooooo whhhhhhhhhooooooaaaaaaaaaa!
Put this together with what is being discussed on this thread:
Report: Barack Obama’s Al Qaida initiative began months before his election
January 28, 2009 7:15:12 PM EST · by penelopesire · 288 replies · 6,116+ views
World Tribune ^ | Wednesday, January 28, 2009 | World Tribune
“Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president, according to a report in the upcoming weekly edition of Geostrategy-Direct.com. ShareThis Al Qaida has offered what has been described as a truce in exchange for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to the report.” (snip) “The president has been aided by several Persian Gulf Arab Muslims with ties to Al Qaida’s leadership in Pakistan, they said.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173831/posts
What do you think?
The charges can be dismissed “without prejudice” which means that they can be refiled later. It is just a bump in the road.
True, it is not a done deal and still a consideration. But, it appears that most are seeing O’s will in getting what he wants.
I see the whole “Pentagon may be forced” comment as some liberal reporter’s *** dream of having this rebellious Colonel busted down for non-cooperation... it’s nothing more than the reporters wishes, written down.
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