Posted on 01/25/2017 5:47:10 PM PST by drewh
Pesident Donald Trump is reportedly considering signing an executive order that would direct the Pentagon to continue using the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba “for the detention and trial of newly captured” detainees linked to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Islamic State.
The New York Times (NYT) claimed to have obtained the Trump administration’s three-page draft executive order, titled “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants.”
It “would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the Bush administration.”
“The draft order does not direct any immediate reopening of C.I.A. prisons or revival of torture tactics, which are now barred by statute. But it sets up high-level policy reviews to make further recommendations in both areas to Mr. Trump…”
The Times acknowledges that the Trump White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the draft order, including when the President may sign it.
In the text the Times published of the alleged order, the Trump administration criticizes Obama for having “refrained from exercising certain authorities” about detainees it said were critical to defending the United States from “radical Islamism.”
The draft order would also direct U.S. Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis to work with the attorney general and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) to “review the military commissions system and recommend to the president how best to employ the system going forward to provide for the swift and just trial and punishment of unlawful enemy combatants detained in the armed conflict with violent Islamist extremists.”
Of the 41 prisoners who remain at the Guantánamo detention center, also known as Gitmo, more than half are believed to be “forever prisoners,” or too dangerous to release.
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Trump..who is leaking ???
I think Gitmo has a lot of water...and probably nice straight tropical wood boards. Yup, that must be the reason.
Another campaign promise. If I remember DJT promising to put, “A lot of bad dudes there”
Trump needs to start hiding code on doc to find the leaker. If he doesnt know what I mean..someone there will.
how about military trials and firing squads like WWII? please, please please...
Gitmo was always a good fit to hold enemy combatants. Of course, Obama let most of them go.
Trump May Continue Using Gitmo for Trials of ‘Newly Captured’ Prisoners
Hell, yes. Odumbo emptied the place, let Trump fill it up again...and throw away the keys.
Report: Trump May Continue Using Gitmo for Trials of ‘Newly Captured’ Prisoners
Good idea. They're already set up with halal food service and plenty of complementary Korans.
Start with the protesters.
Chipping away at the “Obama Legacy.”
#winning
Gonna need to add on!
I am hunk instead of leaks, they are being planted.
Political Warfare. Overwwhelm them.
Ha smart phones my ASP!
I am hunk? = I think!!!!
They should also immediately get rid of all the Club Gitmo items that make the place a country club. Turn it back into a prison.
Lol...was having trouble...lol...yes..I absolutely believe some are being planted. Remember that trump played his own pr person john miller iirc..and then leaked the tape years later
you can never be sure with him!!!
It’s a good, secure place. Away from home.
I suspect that he's already on it. Trump is Gibbs.
I forget why we are giving these guys judicial process.
The only trial I want to see in GTMO is “See if you can make it across the courtyard before we open fire.”
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