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'No US Rights' For Bagram Inmates (Obama's Justice Dept: 600 Detainees Have No Constitutional Rights
BBC ^
| 2/21/2009
| Staff
Posted on 02/22/2009 11:58:30 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan cannot use US courts to challenge their detention, the US says.
The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.
Most have been arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of waging a terrorist war against the US.
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W. Bush.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; bagram; barackobama; bbc; bho2009; bho44; constitution; first100days; hopeychangey; justicedepartment; obama; obamatruthfile
I wonder how libs/Dems/the MSM will try to spin this in Obama's favor. If Bush were president, they would take a different line in commenting on or reporting this.
These detainees aren't going anywhere for quite some time. Plenty of time to tell America what the Obama administration is up to.
BTW, I personally don't believe that these 600 being detained at Bagram deserve constitutional rights.
To: All
What say you?
Notice how the BBC reports this on Saturday?
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posted on
02/22/2009 12:00:01 PM PST
by
Laissez-faire capitalist
(Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
To: All
I thought Obama said that he was going to bring “change”
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posted on
02/22/2009 12:05:29 PM PST
by
Laissez-faire capitalist
(Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Foreign news is now the news of choice by most Americans because while we may get biased information, at least we get information.
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posted on
02/22/2009 12:11:56 PM PST
by
tobyhill
(Obama gets no free pass from Free Republic!)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
I thought Obama said that he was going to bring “change” He is. He's changing the socialist power grab in this country from covert to overt.
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posted on
02/22/2009 12:13:06 PM PST
by
tbpiper
(Coward, huh? Get your Marxist butt down here and say it to my face, Holder.)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W. Bush. Do they mean the same "human rights lawyers" who were foaming-at-the-mouth raging mad at W for "depriving" people of their "rights", will now just grumble and accept it as "disappointing" when BO is pres?
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posted on
02/22/2009 12:25:12 PM PST
by
jeffc
(They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
To: tobyhill
Agreed. The British press from the Telegraph onwards are the ones reporting the real news. The MSM are COMPLETELY in the tank for Dumbo.
I dont trust the BBC because they are ardent anti-US/Israel propagandists but it is surprising they even reported this.
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
The justice department ruled that some 600 so-called enemy combatants at Bagram have no constitutional rights.HAHAHAHA!!!
The move has disappointed human rights lawyers who had hoped the Obama administration would take a different line to that of George W. Bush.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
02/22/2009 1:19:28 PM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
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posted on
02/22/2009 4:12:06 PM PST
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
To: Laissez-faire capitalist
I thought Constitutional rights were for U.S. Citizens only. How did the detainees get them?
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posted on
02/22/2009 5:59:12 PM PST
by
redhead
(Don't look at ME! I voted for SARAH!)
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