The military is all about knowing the “end-game” and they know this end-game as well ...
You said, “Congress can decide what to do from there - whether to impeach him or not ...”
And I said ...
We’ve already seen how the Senate acts with the Democrats being in control - for example with Clinton, where they would NOT CONVICT.
The Senate would never act to convict. It would be Reid running a straight party line ... :-) ...
In addition to that, in the entire history of the USA, the Senate has NEVER ONE TIME removed a president from office. It has simply NEVER WORKED ONE SINGLE TIME, despite being tried many times.
So ... “that” (what you say) ... is going absolutely nowhere and everyone knows it, including the military.
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The military can read the tea leaves and they know politics very well, too ... :-) ...
Somebody who is detained is not released until the evidence is all looked at and it’s determined that they are not a danger. It doesn’t matter whether they impeach him; he can’t act as President from Gitmo. So while they are processing him to find out if they made a mistake in classifying him as an enemy combatant, somebody else acts as President. If Congress would impeach and convict they would remove him from office and whoever was next in the line of succession would not only ACT as President but would actually BECOME President.
Impeachment is irrelevant. It’s not a matter of booting somebody out of office; it’s a matter of keeping an enemy combatant from destroying the country.