Posted on 09/23/2009 9:35:50 PM PDT by Nachum
The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials.
Leading congressional Democrats and members of the civil rights community had signaled opposition to any new indefinite-detention regime, fearing that it would expand government powers and undermine the rule of law and U.S. legal traditions.
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The list, ping
Why is Bummer chucking all his moose friends under the bus?
Unless he PUBLICLY cuts them loose, in advance, he is toast.
(He doesn't know it yet , but the line attributed to him "...I will stand with them, should the political winds blow that way" will finish his career anyway if there is another major jihadist attack on U.S. soil.)
Pray for him: we don't want President Biden either.
Cheers!
Bush is going to soon run out of room on the front side of his score card and will have to flip it over to keep track of the wins he’s scored.
Obama exhausts me. It is hard to keep up the level of distrust, anger and repullsion this poseur causes.
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