Posted on 01/11/2014 7:24:36 PM PST by Innovative
Just dig a little deeper into who has been driving the anti-Gitmo disinformation campaign these past 12 years, and we discover an international, fervently anti-American, far-left coalition attacking the nation through a savvy propaganda effort.
This includes those linked to Al Qaeda financiers, communist groups, anarchist movements - backed by sympathetic press and politicians.
Regrettably, it’s a coalition President Barack Obama has sided with in his priority to release as many Al Qaeda, Taliban and “affiliates” as humanly possible.
the State Dept. will finally designate ex-Gitmo detainee, Libya’s Sufian Bin Qumu, and his group, Ansar Al-Sharia as “foreign terrorist entities” for their roles in the Benghazi Consulate attack.
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It's his #1 Agenda. Don't forget: The very first day he took office Jan. 20th 2009, the very first thing he did was try to close Gitmo. Above ALL else, terrorists were his #1 priority the second he took office.
I read and read and read all this madness and lately all it’s done is gotten me through whatever stages in between and straight to pissed off. I write and write and write but writing to my congressman a progressive commie is like hitting a brick wall, he could give a hoot.
This is plain old cold war stuff. Don’t be surprised when the Russians and Chicoms are revealed to have been feeding the critter also. The money is pretty well buried but our enemies have worked inside against us since WW II.——anything to drag us down and deplete our resources. Remember how our timber industry got damaged? They think that will give them an edge catching up with us. So far they still don’t have flush toilets to go around so you can see how well it’s worked for them.?
Great list. I would add: increases dependency on the government
Dang! How did I miss that??? Good call!
All those untraceable Internet donations of $25 pay off.
I just read large portions of “Company Man” by John Rizzo.
He was a long-time CIA man and head of it’s legal team during a goo part of the GWBUsh Admin.
According to Rizzo Rumsfield kept his distance from the “secret” CIA detention program and was also NOT keen on GITMO either; he just didn’t want the headache in DOD’s lap. Not that he didn’t go along with it, as a loyal Sec of Def, but, according to Rizzo, he personally participated almost zero - delegating subordinates - in almost all the discussions among the principles on both issues.
The CIA legal team itself would have preferred to see the detainees charged and imprisoned in the civilian courts, but accepted the arguments that the trials would present difficulties in the security of the intelligence gained and the intelligence procedures and that keeping those issues in check would present difficulties in prosecution - as later cases demonstrated.
Personally, I do not understand why any of them could not see the clarity of the “war time” analogy, that (1) the purpose of detaining prisonsers in war is to (a)get information and (b) keep them off the battlefield and (2) it is not our fault that the detainees were not acting on behalf of any sovereign to whom we could ‘sign a peace treaty and know the war was over’, and therefor (3) it is not our fault, but the nature of THEIR KIND OF WAR, that the period of their detention will be INDEFINITE.
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