According to the Washington Monthly Obama is continuing practices that he severely criticized Bush for during his campaign. Is there truth to their charges? I can imagine that Obama has good reason but on the surface it looks bad.
Correct me if I’m wrong here, but doesn’t this have to do with classified information? I don’t think this has to do with the detainees, per se…something, afaik, that Obama has already started moving on to make major changes on.
By my count it’s ONLY FEBRUARY…
-XT
That’s a good point: is it reasonable to expect Obama to change things this quickly? Could Obama have told the lawyers involved to wait until the case could be reexamined? The author of the op-ed seems to think so but I don’t trust a single source.
Sometimes things are not so easy. Some times even the president cannot stop things on his own.
On the one hand I can understand President Obama saying “stop everything, we need to take a look at this”. On the other hand I can understand a judge saying “the POTUS has had more than enough time already, this man has been held for too long, I cannot make allowances just because the person who happens to be POTUS has changed, it is the same Executive”.
So, it is just one more mess created by the clown who left.
Didn’t you read the link ? It has to do with us grabbing a guy for reading a joke website, then having his genitals carved up and hot liquids poured into the wounds. Among other things.
But hey, if it’s for national security what does it matter ?
I must have missed that part. I guess it’s ok though if it’s for nation security…as long as the one being grabbed and genitalized isn’t me of course…
-XT
Well, and flying with a fake Brittish passport. Not that that should be messing with his junk, but maybe you should get off your high horse a bit? You seem to have a bad habit of skewing things in favor of your own personal idealogy.