“The new legal framework, which will try the most prominent Al-Qaeda suspects now at the Guantanamo Bay war on terror camp in Cuba, would include restrictions on the use of hearsay evidence against detainees. The revisions would also reportedly ban evidence obtained through coercion, such as waterboarding and other enhanced CIA interrogation techniques.”
This is rigged for acquittals, making this nothing but show. We might as well send them back to the battle field where they can be killed..
so basically obama is going forward with bush’s policy?
LOLOLOLOLOL
Maybe it's starting to sink in that there are valid and logical reasons why the simplistic liberal assumptions that lead to so much handwringing by the rest of us violate rational thought processes. He does appear to be starting to see that some of Bush's foreign policies are the right ones to have at the current time, that campaign rhetoric to get elected may have been based on false conclusions and a failure to see the results if implemented.
My opinions of him are improving. You've got to give him credit for being willing to suffer the humiliation he's getting for reversing his positions on some of these key issues.
Now if he had a semblance of understanding of economics such that he could foresee the ramifications of his 'ready, fire, aim' approach in that arena, he might start to get passing grades in some of those areas. His recent conclusions that our national debt is unsustainable at the current level - much less the increased levels caused by some of his recent actions - may raise his economics 101 grade to an F+, but he's got a way to go to move it to a D or higher.
Pffft....Go ahead
You don't waterboard someone for they did, but what is going to....
That pretty much makes this statement useless regarding the the charges against the detainees....
Well well well.....
LLS
What problems? Name one for me, Graham.
The entire "problem" was the media screaming that the terrorists weren't being kept in a 5-star Hilton.
has given permission for military trials to restart at Guantanamo Bay in an announcement that effectively repudiated one of his first decisions in office... The new legal framework, which will try the most prominent Al-Qaeda suspects now at the Guantanamo Bay war on terror camp in Cuba, would include restrictions on the use of hearsay evidence against detainees. The revisions would also reportedly ban evidence obtained through coercion, such as waterboarding and other enhanced CIA interrogation techniques.No, it doesn't repudiate one of his first decisions in office. He'll be able to say, see, we didn't hold them indefinitely without trial, and made sure the rules of evidence were more in accord with American jurisprudence -- but he'll still get the acquittals he desperately wants. Sure am glad McCain lost. /sarc
There's no way he's smart enough to have planned this as a bait and switch tactic. Incompetence is the only answer.