Where is the ACLU?? Hello???
Baghram is certainly a step up from Guantanamo (/s).
Giving habeas corpus rights to a terrorist, who is not a US citizen, is not against the constitution, nor is it against the geneva convention or the hague accords. As with Bush, these people are enemy combatants, arrested and detained in the act of terrorism and harm to US soldiers or our allies. Obama fought it when it was fashionalbe to do so, but now that he is the CIC, he realizes that to get information that saves lives, and take dangerous people off the battlefield, this is a military necessity. Of course, what is not said in the SALON article is that they do have hearings, but they are Military Hearings. This was designed to keep Enemy Combatants out of Civilian Courts. This rightly is to be handled by the Military IMO.
If this was Bush doing this, the left would be screaming from the rooftops. Where are they now, too afraid to criticize their God?
A federal judge had already ruled that the inmates of Bagram are entitled to the same Constitutional protections granted to the inmated at Guantanamo. The Obama Justice Dept has just won their appeal of that decision. Yet more hypocrisy from the left, and yet another attack against equal protection. Personally, I believe this decision by the DC Court of Appeals renders the earlier decision granting rights to Guantanamo detainees null and void.
I disagree strongly with most of the things Greenwald writes, but at least he’s one of the few journalists on the Left willing to hold Obama to the same standards he held Bush to.
Now Obama can do all kinds of favors for his international friends, abducting their enemies and whatnot.
I dunno what the author of this crap is whining about...They (liberals/socialists) have nothing to worry about from this revelation...
It is the right, and those of us who see Obama and his ilk really to be...
Abraham Lincoln set that precedent.
Maybe Greenwald ought to look at his fellow lefties to find the answer. They went from daily hysteria to near silence once Obama was elected. Obama catches suprisingly little grief from his left on these issues. Except that it’s really not surprising, since the outrage was mostly a posture for tactical political purposes (also because it was fun to howl along with the rest of the pack). Victor Davis Hanson has the best analysis. He says Obama shewdly saw through the left’s cynicism. Obama knew he could get away with basically carrying forward Bush’s policies, because he knew the left didn’t really mean it. A few did, like Greenwald, but most knew, on some level at least, that Bush’s policies were sensible and put in place for the right reasons. And now that Bush isn’t there to keep them in permanent hysteria mode, most of them have settled down. So Obama has a free hand.
Really ..?? Under what American Citizenship passages of the Constitution do people think this is possible. Those picked up on foreign soil are not necessarily American citizens, and they are, therefore, NOT entitled to the priviledges of citizens. People don't get it .. WE ARE AT WAR!!!!!