Posted on 03/06/2009 6:23:34 AM PST by Sergeant Tim
Fadi Al Maqaleh is one of the many "unlawful enemy combatants" being detained by the U.S. military at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. He seeks to challenge his detention in a U.S. court, but recently last week the Obama administration argued that he cannot. Adopting one of the Bush administration's controversial terrorist detention policies, President Obama's Justice Department told a federal court that it had no power to hear the case. ... Judge Bates and the human rights lobby had good reason to expect a different approach. Last fall, while the Bush administration was defending its terrorist detention policies in court, Obama was on the campaign trail condemning them. In one of Obama's most rousing performances during the race, at a town hall event in Farmington Hills, Michigan, he suggested that all people captured by the government have a constitutional right to challenge their detention.
"[I]f the Government grabs you, then you have the right to at least ask, 'Why was I grabbed?' and say, 'Maybe you got the wrong person'.... So the reason that you have this principle is not to be soft on terrorism. It's because that's who we are--that's what we're protecting! Don't mock the Constitution! Don't make fun of it! Don't suggest that it's un-American to abide by what the founding fathers set up--it's worked pretty well for over 200 years"!
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
Protesters attend Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on propsed "truth commission" Wednesday. Note the 'Bagram' sign.
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In case you haven't been following it, more that 100,000 Taliban plus an additional 8-14,000 al Qaeda are running around armed and in charge of Pakistan's tribal/federally adminstered areas. Yet the anti-war crowd like those in the photo above think we should fight war as if they are legal actions.
Ping!
0bami seems uninterested in foreign policy. He gets his kicks socializing domestic policy and taking income/wealth from producers.
"Vigil" outside of White House, March 4, 2009.
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