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Headline at MSNBC this morning:
Analysis: Abrupt end to 'war on terror'
the rest
This man will get us all killed
- Outrage!
Can we please get some Americans in this administration? Newsmax: Holder: Death Penalty May Not Be Possible for KSM, 9/11 Plotters Sunday, 11 Jul 2010 11:17 AM WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder raised questions Sunday about whether it would be...
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Federal Judge Orders Release of al-Qaeda Operative Who Helped Plan 9/11 Currently Being Held in GitmoFrom Weasel Zippers: How do those civilian trials for 9/11 plotters sound now, Obama?... WASHINGTON- A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called...
- 'obama Discrediting Himself And The Us'
But didn't, like, a gazillion Germans turn out and rally for him? Not that any could have cast a vote for him, mind you, which made the whole thing even more ridiculous and absurd. Like his entire candidacy and presidency thus far. Oh well, I guess...
- Outrage!
Blood Pressure Alert. at Breitbart: Terror inmates may be released in US: intel chief President Barack Obama's intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society....
- Obama Will Not Close Gitmo After All?
From Stop the ACLU: Suddenly, civil liberty lawyers, the NY Times, and Barack himself are adopting the Bush doctrine. Perhaps sniping from the sidelines was easier than facing the complexity of reality. As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack...
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Good News! War is Over!
Headline at MSNBC this morning:
Analysis: Abrupt end to 'war on terror'
Obama signals that America's reach in battling enemies will not be
limitless
ANALYSIS
By Dana Priest
The Washington Post
updated 5:13
a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday eliminated the most controversial tools employed by his predecessor against terrorism suspects. With the stroke of his pen, he effectively declared an end to the "war on terror," as President George W. Bush had defined it, signaling to the world that the reach of the U.S. government in battling its enemies will not be limitless.
While Obama says he has no plans to diminish counterterrorism operations abroad, the notion that a president can circumvent long-standing U.S. laws simply by declaring war was halted by executive order in the Oval Office.
Key components of the secret structure developed under Bush are being swept away: The military's Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, facility, where the rights of habeas corpus and due process had been denied detainees, will close, and the CIA is now prohibited from maintaining its own overseas prisons. And in a broad swipe at the Bush administration's lawyers, Obama nullified every legal order and opinion on interrogations issued by any lawyer in the executive branch after Sept. 11,
2001.
It was a swift and sudden end to an era that was slowly drawing to a close
anyway, as public sentiment grew against perceived abuses of government power. The feisty debate over the tactics employed against al-Qaeda began more than six years ago as whispers among confidants with access to the nation's most tightly held secrets. At the time, there was consensus in Congress and among the public that the United States would be attacked again and that government should do
what was necessary to thwart the threat.
the rest
This man will get us all killed
- Outrage!
Can we please get some Americans in this administration? Newsmax: Holder: Death Penalty May Not Be Possible for KSM, 9/11 Plotters Sunday, 11 Jul 2010 11:17 AM WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder raised questions Sunday about whether it would be...
-
Federal Judge Orders Release of al-Qaeda Operative Who Helped Plan 9/11 Currently Being Held in GitmoFrom Weasel Zippers: How do those civilian trials for 9/11 plotters sound now, Obama?... WASHINGTON- A suspected al Qaeda organizer once called...
- 'obama Discrediting Himself And The Us'
But didn't, like, a gazillion Germans turn out and rally for him? Not that any could have cast a vote for him, mind you, which made the whole thing even more ridiculous and absurd. Like his entire candidacy and presidency thus far. Oh well, I guess...
- Outrage!
Blood Pressure Alert. at Breitbart: Terror inmates may be released in US: intel chief President Barack Obama's intelligence chief confirmed Thursday that some Guantanamo inmates may be released on US soil and receive assistance to return to society....
- Obama Will Not Close Gitmo After All?
From Stop the ACLU: Suddenly, civil liberty lawyers, the NY Times, and Barack himself are adopting the Bush doctrine. Perhaps sniping from the sidelines was easier than facing the complexity of reality. As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack...