Posted on 12/06/2016 9:30:26 AM PST by Nachum
President Barack Obama will deliver a major address Tuesday in Florida to explain the policies his administration established over the past eight years on suspected terrorists, while making a push for the transparency his critics have said for years does not exist.
Obama will explain in his speech, being delivered at the military's Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, also the home of Special Operations Command, the legal and policy rationale used by the administration to decide whether terrorists should be killed, interrogated, or detained, reports The Los Angeles Times, which notes the president will be defending his national security record.
Obama will also argue on Tuesday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, to continue a ban on torture, and for the United States to respect the civil rights of Muslim-Americans, reports USA Today. The president is also expected to explain his strategy of putting local forces on the front lines to fight ISIS in Iraq and Syria while limiting U.S. troop deployments to those areas.
Meanwhile, news and watchdog organizations have criticized the Obama administration for years for its lack of transparency, as he has used the Espionage Act to investigate government leaks more than all presidents combined since its passage in 1917, The Guardian reported last year.
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My poor son in law works there. Can’t wait til I hear his take on this. I know he is not happy Obama is there today. I have heard him say how he skips out on these kind of visits.
All Zer0’s speeches are transparent.
You can see right through the teleprompters.
Going to release all his college records. /s
Predictable, now the left will DEMAND transparency. You know the way the dims on the military and national security committees in congress released all kinds of info to the Slimes when W was in the WH.
The totally opaque half black lecturing us on transparency, now that is rich.
Great! Soooo, I assume all FOIA requests will be handled without any delays.
The only thing transparent about Obama is his opacity...
This is just another rub it in your face moment before he pardons the Bergdahl deserter. He’s transparent alright.
Put the limp wristed traitor on the point .....
His ROE got AMERICANS killed.
POS should stfu and vaporize ....
He is no longer relevant.
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