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State Department designates 3 Ansar al Sharia organizations, leaders as terrorist organizations
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Thanks for posting this informative article. The author left out Code Pink, which works with Obama and terrorists against the U.S. But otherwise it is good to see this at Fox.
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.
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.