Posted on 02/05/2009 3:24:14 PM PST by Smokeyblue
ABC News has learned that on Friday, President Obama will likely order the Department of Defense's Military Commission to withdraw charges against terrorist suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri. The charges may later be reinstated in a military commission or pursued in a civilian court. Al-Nashiri will remain in custody.
The announcement will not be made until after President Obama meets with the families of victims of terrorist attacks on 9/11 and on the U.S.S. Cole, where he will assure them that this step is not being done to be lenient towards al-Nashiri. The move is being done to stop the continued prosecution of al-Nashiri in a court system that his administration may ultimately find illegitimate, not for any other reason, sources told ABC News.
President Obama has expressed concern about whether the military commissions set up by the Bush administration are the proper way to go forward in pursuing charges against the U.S. detainees, and on January 22 he asked all the judges supervising the trials of detainees for a continuance of 120 days, so a team of administration officials could review the best way forward.
In almost the cases, that continuance request was granted. But last week the judge supervising the al-Nashiri trial -- Army Col. James L. Pohl, the chief judge at the Guantanamo Bay war crimes court -- said he would not heed President Obama's request for a 120-day continuance, or delay, in prosecutions of terrorism suspects. Pohl called the president's request "not reasonable" and not "in the interests of justice."
The arraignment of al-Nashiri is scheduled for Monday, February 9.
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Wow, if Obama keeps up this level of ineptitude and stupidity, then Governor Palin will be a shoe in for the Presidency in 2012, provided that we still have a country left by that time.
I understand your point of view, but that is not why we lost.
Smarten up.
We lost because the GOP put forth a candidate with no broad appeal and the GOP was then outvoted big time.
Until such time as the GOP voters choose someone that we can all be excited about, someone who really does put forth a clear agenda and plan that encompasses our values, rather than offering up a candidate who is just a paler shade of the opponent, then the GOP will lose and continue to lose until it does so.
And that is how Hussein took over power in this country.
You speak the truth way to much; the "perfect conservatives" are not gonna be happy with you ...
As do I at this point. WTF happened to this country ...
We had a very stong conservative candidate that could have spent four years as a VP and eight years as a POTUS, Palin. That still was not good enough for some.
“We are very likely going to lose to this idiot, and lose even bigger than we did in 08.
Not true, anytime conservatism has been on the ticket we have won. And I still believe that most people just want to be left alone, and conservatism will do that.
I hope that he does.
Oddly enough the brother of Seaman Cheron Gunn, killed on the USS Cole is recently elected South Carolina Democrat Anton Gunn who is far to the left of Barak Obama.
Recently elected to the SC State House, Gunn was a senior campaign manager of Obama’s campaign and got his start in politics as a leftist.....(drum roll)....community organizer!!!!
LOL! That really stopped it, huh? - It is going forward at TOP SPEED!
Take your head out, Freeper!
IT is only supported by 37 percent of the population. Obama has fumbled and screwed up EVERYTHING since being in office.
He has not failed at one liberal point at all.
Nothing. Zero.
The opinion polls and the GOP opposition mean little to nothing.
He will get nearly a trillion with this bill, and then its off to the next project at full throttle while you stand there dumbfounded that it is all happening
Thank you for posting the pictures of our sailors. They should always be in every thread related to this new news story. Never forget.
I hope the POTUS drives back to DC from Williamsburg. I hope he finds the time to stop and pay his respects at the Mechanicsville bridge over I-295 named in memory of Kenneth Eugene Clodfelter.
I hope he takes a good long time and studies the hopeful, promising, full of potential faces in the page you posted, Diogenesis. And I hope he grasps just what it was and forever will be that these fine, beautiful, sons and daughters so willingly and selflessly gave so that guys like himself can be where they are, doing what they are doing, today.
God rest and keep you, Cooter. You are missed, never forgotten.
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=18084
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/052007/05252007/287171/printer_friendly
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2000/10/17/2000-10-17_hope_lives_for_kin_of_missin.html
http://michellemalkin.com/2006/10/12/remember-the-cole-six-years/?loggedin=1200382552
Obviously you are clueless or simply misguided; almost as much so as some Freepers who believed Obama wouldn't be elected at all to begin with.
As long as the media is still around brainwashing people with ultra liberal talking points, there is no hope.
The only guaranteed way Obama will lose the next presidential election is if there is another terrorist attack on the country.
I don't like that much at all ...
I want to find out precisely which Muslims in this country Obama is claiming as his advisors. We know already that he has publicly “embraced” Hamas-lover Ingrid Mattson. I also want to know if Keith Ellison is maintaining his ties to CAIR after the FBI cut theirs.
For those who don’t know there is another thread about this news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2179279/posts
I am finding more and more reasons to want to raise hogs on my property.
How stupid are we to elect a terrorist sympathizer as President!
“Hussein” is the name, islam is the game!
NO!
Got to speak truth no matter what. Maybe some of it will sink in someday. Hopefully not before it's too late, though. :)
These are my words, almost to the letter.
I have since experienced what some academics call a 'paradigm shift' in my perception of the American voting public.
I now can imagine almost anything happening in '12.
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