Posted on 03/31/2011 7:41:07 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Earlier this month, President Obama issued an executive order establishing a process for reviewing whether prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay continue to pose a threat. Under this order, those who have not been charged with a crime may continue to be detained indefinitely, and may come before a review board every three years, which will evaluate whether continued incarceration is necessary for public safety.
The order is a striking development because, not only has President Obama effectively adopted yet another cornerstone of President Bush’s terrorism policy, but he did so unilaterally by executive order, providing detainees solely an executive branch review.
Now that Mr. Obama may have abandoned his Panglossian fantasy of closing Guantanamo Bay, he must work with Congress to enact substantive and procedural rules for prisoners challenging their confinement. And with new leadership in the House, there is hope that the difficult work of legislating a sensible detention policy may finally begin.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration, including one requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within a year.
During a signing ceremony at the White House, Obama reaffirmed his inauguration pledge that the United States does not have "to continue with a false choice between our safety and our ideals."
The president said he was issuing the order to close the facility in order to "restore the standards of due process and the core constitutional values that have made this country great even in the midst of war, even in dealing with terrorism."
[pan-glos-ee-uhn, -glaw-see-, pang-] Show IPA –adjective
characterized by or given to extreme optimism, especially in the face of unrelieved hardship or adversity.
Bubba's translation - "This ole' boy jest don't understand the sitiation!"
Be worried about this....be very worried!
Ah yes! This is the best of all possible worlds and Obama the best of all possible presidents.
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