Guantanamo added to White House-Hagel friction

Politico ^ | November 24, 2014 | Josh Gerstein

[C19fan]

The White House has publicly signaled that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's abrupt resignation stemmed from concerns about his ability to handle the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, but part of what alienated Hagel from from Obama's inner circle was the defense chief's resistance to directives to whittle down the prisoner population at Guantanamo Bay, sources familiar with the situation said.

When Obama began pushing last year to reinvigorate the process of closing Guantanamo, White House aides repeatedly urged Hagel to sign off on transfers of detainees who’d long been cleared for release. Yet for months the defense secretary refused to sign certifications that the future threat posed by the prisoners could be adequately mitigated, according to a U.S. official.

[C19fan]

Hagel was fired because he cared more about protecting Americans than closing Guantanamo by 2016 so Zero can claim he kept a campaign promise back in 2008.

[Diogenesis]

Obama owes Holder for protecting the undocumented impostor
and so the terrorists MUST be now be let free.

On terrorists, Justice recused“
AG Eric Holder's clients (the REAL reason for the transfer – to free them):
• Saad Al Qahtani
• Mohammed Zahrani
• Achraf Salim ("Sultan") Abdessalam
• Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman
• Musaab Omar Al Madhwani
• Jawad Jabbar Sadkhan (Al Sahlani)
• Majid Khan

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“Attorney General Holder's Advisers Have Conflicts on Detainee Cases“

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“Eric Holder’s Law Firm Has a history of representing Terrorists”

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“Corruptocrat AG Eric Holder’s conflicted DOJ“

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The Al-Qaeda Bar (Big Law Firms Line Up to Represent Terrorists)
”Some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful law firms have donated hundreds of
millions of dollars in free legal services to terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Their work, bolstered by left-wing activists groups, has helped to free, or force the
transfer, of hundreds of al Qaeda suspects to third countries. Some have gone back to
terrorism and the job of trying to kill Americans.

The work of big American law firms on behalf of al Qaeda is drawing new attention since
Attorney General Eric Holder decided this month that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who
orchestrated the murder of over 3,000 9-11, is coming to New York City for trial. Holder
was a partner at Covington & Burling, which in 2005 gave one its attorneys an award for
aiding 17 Yemeni suspects at Guantanamo.”

A list of 10 of the largest American legal firms representing Guantanamo terror detainees:
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
Blank Rome
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
Shearman & Sterling
Allen & Overy
Convington & Burling
Dorsey & Whitney
Holland & Hart
Hunton & Williams
Paul, Weiss”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Obama’s Most Improbable Achievement:

Making Chuck Hagel look like a Patriot

[silverleaf]

and making Joe Biden look like a statesman

[Ann Archy]

Maybe the last scrap of Republicanism is showing in Sad Sack Hagel.