Posted on 02/15/2010 8:09:06 PM PST by Starman417
March 2002: President Bush authorizes the indefinite detention of enemy combatants.
April 2010: President Obama keeps that program intact.
Watch as the left heads explode:
The White House is considering endorsing a law that would allow the indefinite detention of some alleged terrorists without trial as part of efforts to break a logjam with Congress over President Barack Obamas plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said MondayCivil liberties advocates and many who back Obamas effort to close Guantanamo have opposed a preventive detention law as a departure from the tradition of prosecuting and punishing individuals for specific crimes. Some critics have also expressed worries that such a law would be hard to limit and could be extended well beyond Al Qaeda operatives.
Asked why the administration had become more open to a detention statute, Graham cited recent court rulings and comments by several federal judges who said the legal standards for detaining enemy prisoners are too vague
Right on the heels of this news:
The Talibans top military commander was captured several days ago in Karachi, Pakistan, in a secret joint operation by Pakistani and American intelligence forces, according to American government officials.
Read more at floppingaces.net...
I can see Obama making the calculation that by throwing Holder under the bus, backing off on KSM trial and Gitmo he thinks he can regain the Independents, whereas he’s already lost the far-left loons, never to return.
Lust as he never did understand what the Independents who elected him want, this just proves he still doesn’t.
He still wants to close Gitmo and bring them to our country. That is the trade off it sounds to me like they are working on. They should be detained indefinitely, and they should NOT be detained ON AMERICAN SOIL.
Bye bye Obama.
Leftist craniums explode?Did it help?
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