Obama Ordering Changes in U.S. Hostage Policies

NYT ^ | 06/23/2015 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

[GIdget2004]

President Obama on Wednesday will announce that the government will no longer threaten criminal prosecution of the families of American hostages who are held abroad by groups like the Islamic State if they attempt to pay ransom for the release of their loved ones. The change is one of many that are intended to fix what the administration has acknowledged is a broken policy on United States captives, a senior administration official said.

In a presidential directive and an executive order, Mr. Obama also plans to make clear that while he is keeping a longstanding federal prohibition against making concessions to those who take hostages, the government can communicate and negotiate with captors holding Americans or help family members seeking to do so in order to ensure their safe return.

The changes make official what has long been the United States government’s unspoken practice in some hostage cases, but one that has been inconsistently applied and poorly understood both inside federal agencies and among family members desperate to win the release of their relatives.

[ConservativeMind]

0bama cannot unilaterally not enforce laws. This is illegal.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[molson209]

0bama cannot unilaterally not enforce laws. This is illegal.

In Obama’s tiny brain there were Zero Laws in the US when he took power ,so he must make them up

[longtermmemmory]

he is taking pages from his father. It is very European. Obama views himself as king and the congress as a parliament that exists at his will and pleasure. A parliament to be disregarded at whim.

Too bad the USSC does not see they are just useful idiots who are going to be the first eliminated by stalin.

[Nachum]

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