Posted on 07/08/2009 9:03:23 AM PDT by Starman417
Will the left call him Obamahitler now? (h/t Ace of Spades HQ)
Jeh Johnson, the Defense Department's chief lawyer, told the Senate Armed Services Committee that releasing a detainee who has been tried and found not guilty was a policy decision that officials would make based on their estimate of whether the prisoner posed a future threat.Like the Bush administration, the Obama administration argues that the legal basis for indefinite detention of aliens it considers dangerous is separate from war-crimes prosecutions. Officials say that the laws of war allow indefinite detention to prevent aliens from committing warlike acts in future, while prosecution by military commission aims to punish them for war crimes committed in the past.
Johnson said such prisoners held without trial would receive "some form of periodic review" that could lead to their release.
As Dick Cheney said, Gitmo exists for a reason. That reason being the security of our country and the security of armed forces. The worst of the worst are housed there, and as Cheney stated in the above linked video, 12% of those released after careful review are back in the fight. Just look at the leader of the Taliban currently fighting our Marines....a Gitmo prisoner released in 2007:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Meet The New Boss....
Will Sen Dick Turban call Gitmo “Barry’s Gulag”?
The hypocracy is unbelievable.
The attacks that W endured on a daily basis were championed in the media.
Now the least bit of ridicule of The One will get you labled RASCIST and run out of town.
To the media, it is a simple matter of Bush being Republican and Barry being a far left liberal Democrat radical. Nuff’ said.
It is so easy to just complain from the sidelines, but when you actually have to make the decisions it is a whole other story.
NO SURPRISE !
Libtard dhimmycraps are unfair the most of them!
This must be highlighted,emphasized!
And RINOS like McCAIN pretending the contrary are living in fantasyland or traitors.
Libtard lies must be denounced with “straight talk” clear and loud
I mean, the Code Pink wing has got to be furious....
The Obama team basically kept everything from the Bush team, including the people running the programs, when it came to Iraq.
I recall that a few months before the election, when the Dems kinda knew they had a good chance of winning, that they had their press outlets (NPR, NYT, etc etc) put out stories favorable to the progress in Iraq. In addition, they buried their Code Pink wing — like they even allowed Cindy Sheehan into the city limits of Denver? So it was obvious that the Dems weren’t gonna change anything after 1/20/09 by this time last year.
The list, ping
Barry just wants to release the most notorious so they can rejoin the fight in destroying the USA. That’s our president!!
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