Posted on 02/09/2017 7:59:39 AM PST by ColdOne
The White House is finishing an executive order that would instruct the Pentagon to send Islamic State detainees to Guantanamo Bay.
The Obama administration notably refused to send ISIS fighters captured in the fight to the detention facility, but for President Donald Trump, it’s imperative to take high-level radical Islamic terrorists out of the fight, The New York Times reports.
For some, the order could function as a de facto tripwire because it could allow federal judges to rule on whether the war against ISIS is actually legal, since Congress has declined to offer any explicit authorization. Instead, the Obama administration has relied on war authorization granted in 2001, saying that the fight against ISIS is just a continuation of the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
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Shouldn’t need an EO to use common sense but this is The Hill.
According to the Geneva Convention, enemy combatants out of uniform can be summarily executed.
Yes, telling Mad Dog what to do is just the CINC issuing an order - I do not see why this requires an EO. EOs lead to lawsuits....
How about parachute them over Havana with American Flag patches sewn to their crotches?
Excellent !
I thought that place was shuttered by now. NOT! ;-)
All those Bastards need to be flayed alive and their Skin sent back to ISIS and Al-Qaeda as a warning.
Stuff them in?? I’d Prefer, Stuff Them UNDER.
Your idea is good, but would be made even better by the inclusion of a pork product somewhere.
Parachutes are expensive. I’d be okay with releasing terrorists from 10,000 feet without the chutes, to save money.
I would send half to West Hollywood and the Other half to San Francisco
The pleasures these scumbags are offered in Guantanamo should be removed, run a jail like a jail!
It is time we make a business deal with Russia, to build massive jail systems in Siberia to hold there’s and our inmate populations, what a deterant! who would escape? let the russians run it like the gulag. I worked in the jail system for 30 years its a disgrace, the inmates have more rights than the jailers, they run the jails, assault on staff is thru the roof and social justice is a liberal plan to destroy the foundations of this country.
Notice the use of the word “stuff.” They could have said that the detainees will be “sent” to Guantanamo. With Trump, the press editorializes 24/7, in every story, not just on the editorial page.
I was wondering why this needs an EO.
Does it????
agreed.
I think SCOTUS ruled on that here:
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld found that Congress’s 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) authorized law of war detention for enemy combatants, noting that detention is a “fundamental . . . incident to war.”
Yep
” I believe I can fly”.......
plop
Leaked fake news.
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