Posted on 12/29/2009 11:33:39 PM PST by patlin
Last May at the National Archives, President Barack Obama warned that “more mistakes would occur” if Congress continued to politicize terrorist detention policy and the closure of Guantanamo Bay. “[I]f we refuse to deal with those issues today,” he predicted, “then I guarantee you, they will be an albatross around our efforts to combat terrorism in the future.”
On June 17, at the Administrative Maximum (ADX) penitentiary in Florence, Colo., one of those albatrosses, inmate number 24079-038, began his day with a whole new range of possibilities.(snip)
Reid was arrested in 2001 for attempting to blow up American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami with 197 passengers and crew on board. Why had Attorney General Eric Holder decided not to renew his security measures, kept in place since 2002? (snip)the list of Reid’s potential fellow congregants at ADX Florence reads like a Who’s Who of al Qaeda’s most dangerous members: Ramzi Yousef and his three co-conspirators in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui; “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam; “Dirty bomber” Jose Padilla; Wadih el-Hage, Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 247 people.
In December 2008, the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss Reid’s lawsuit.(snip)
On July 6, Justice Department lawyers informed the court that Reid will be given a “new placement” in a “post-SAMs setting.” Whether that entails stepped down security in a different unit or transfer to a less secure facility, the Bureau of Prisons won’t say, and Justice refuses to comment. (snip)
From the outset of his administration, Mr. Obama has been trying to thread the needle between national security policy and his ideological affinity
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Where did this headline come from?
Lawyers who shamelessly compared Gitmo to Nazi concentration camps would think nothing of casting supermax as the next “symbol of America’s shame” and a “rallying cry for our enemies.”
There are shameless senators, too. I wish I knew what their goals are.
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The headline is what the WSJ used.
But the subtitle is what explains it:
“The terrorist sues to resume his jihad from prison. The Obama administration caves in. “
Sorry, rookie mistake. Is my 1st time posting in news, I mistakenly used the format for personal blogging.
Let me have it! LOL
our first mistake was in not making the death penalty automatic for jihad terrorists
So when do we set these guys up with a business and condo on some beautiful tropical island that most of us can’t afford to vacation on? Remind me again about Dear Leader and his non-Islamic spiritual beliefs...
Obamao is an albatross around the neck of the free world.
Busy with attempts to enrich his cronies in Chicago, flying around the world wasting time on globaloney warming, accepting undeserved Nobel prize, partying big time, and generally avoiding actually doing any work for the well being of America.
Shame Shame
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