Posted on 06/08/2014 8:09:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Former U.S. attorney general Michael Mukasey said Sunday that President Obama broke a flawed law with the release of five Taliban commanders from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in exchange for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Obama signed a law last year that requires the president to give Congress a 30-day notice before freeing prisoners from the military detention facility.
“He broke the law, but I believe that the law itself is unconstitutional,” Mukasey said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Article II [of the U.S. Constitution] makes him the commander in chief of the armed forces. These people were in the custody of the armed forces.”
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I think I understand the impeachment process. The House votes to impeach. The Senate then holds a trial with only one possible outcome at this time—acquittal. It will be Clinton redux.
In regards to House members who claim the president is doing impeachable things but don’t start impeachment proceedings, I assume the Republican leadership is blocking impeachment at this time no matter what some House members want. Again, this doesn’t mean the House leadership is trying to protect Obama. They may simply believe it’s hopeless to impeach with the Senate (and subsequent trial) in Democrat hands.
‘Cuz he doesn’t know the frickin’ difference. He did not learn anything in law school just an AA promotee.
2. Previously consulted with congress
3. Swiftboating
4. It was an oversight, sorry
5. Platoon full of psychopaths
6. Taliban threated to kill
7. "What differences does it make?"
8. Stockholm Syndrome
9. PTSD
10. No evidence converted to Islam, fraternized with Taliban, and declared jihad
11. Physically abused, confined in cage
12. Racism
13. Moderate Taliban
14. “Raggedy" platoon
15. "No matter what, to leave an American behind in the hands of people who would torture him, cut of his head, do any number of things"
16. Obama broke unconstitutional law (that he signed)
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