Guantanamo Bay News

Obama Could Use Signing Statements On Gitmo Issue

3:03 pm EST January 3rd, 2011 | Foreign Policy | 5 Comments

Guantanamo Bay

This is interesting:

The Guantanamo provisions, which include limits on where and how prisoners can be tried, were attached to a spending bill for military pay and benefits approved by Congress late last year. White House aides are recommending that President Obama sign the spending bill and then issue a “signing statement” challenging at least some of the Guantanamo provisions as intrusions on his constitutional authority.

The statement, officials said, would likely be released along with a new executive order that outlined review procedures for some — but not all — of the 174 Guantanamo prisoners still held without charge or trial.

Politicians of both parties have been idiotic on the Gitmo issue, making the argument that jails that held terrorists already – like Ramsey Yousef or Timothy McVeigh – turn to swiss cheese when they hold Gitmo detainees. Ridiculous.

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Worst Vice President Ever Pipes Up

10:09 am EST February 4th, 2009 | Terrorism | 86 Comments

You remember how those conservatives flipped out when former Presidents and Vice Presidents like Clinton, Gore, and especially Carter would offer up their opinions. The crying and howling about how it violated protocol? Barack Obama hasn’t been president for a full month yet.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans—and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team—understand.

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.

Now, I don’t care if Cheney pipes up – removing all doubt, etc. – but it’s hilarious to me that the presidential team who presided over the worst terror attack in the entire 233 year history of this nation has styled themselves as expert in preventing terror attacks. And nobody in the MSM has the balls to clal them on it.

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This Detainee Thing

4:42 pm EST January 23rd, 2009 | Terrorism | 47 Comments

Are people seriously clutching their pearls over U.S. prisons housing terror detainees? Um, aren’t these the same prisons that hold people like Timothy McVeigh, John Wayne Gacy and Ted Bundy? Come on.

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