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2017-02-09 Terror Networks

POTUS planning to send ISIS to Gitmo with new executive order

[Right Scoop] The Trump White House is nearing completion of an order that would direct the Pentagon to bring future Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo Bay prison, despite warnings from national security officials and legal scholars that doing so risks undermining the effort to combat the group, according to administration officials and a draft executive order obtained by The New York Times.

White House officials have detailed their thinking about a new detainee policy in an evolving series of drafts of an executive order being circulated among national security officials for comment. While previous versions have shown that the draft has undergone many changes ‐ including dropping language about reviving C.I.A. prisons ‐ the plan to add Islamic State detainees to the Guantánamo population has remained constant.

The latest version of the draft, which circulated this week, would direct Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to use Guantánamo to detain suspected members of "Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces, including individuals and networks associated with the Islamic State."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-09 03:08|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
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#1 More raids similar to the recent undertaking in Yemen are likely coming. The return of Human Intelligence (HUMINT) collection and exploitation is gaining ground.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-09 03:21|| 2017-02-09 03:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.

Posted by gorb 2017-02-09 08:56|| 2017-02-09 08:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ...that would imply he had a conscious and a soul.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-09 09:07|| 2017-02-09 09:07|| Front Page Top

#4 I think you'd find him somewhere in a smokey, oblivious haze.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-09 09:09|| 2017-02-09 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 If they are not in uniform and following other rules of the Geneva Conventions, they are illegal combatants,not POWS. According to the GC, they can be given a drum head court martial and then executed. After we've wrung them dry of any useful intelligence.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2017-02-09 10:56|| 2017-02-09 10:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Hopefully 0bean is finding relief by banging his head on the corner of a filing cabinet about now.

Sounds like he'd be in an office; that's too much work for him.

Posted by Raj 2017-02-09 13:18|| 2017-02-09 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Please no soccer fields, Korans, or special food-- Pork for every meal. Make them not to want come back.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-02-09 15:50|| 2017-02-09 15:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Pork for every meal.

At mealtimes the lads grew irascible,
Debating which choice was more rational,
To wit, which was cleaner,
Your normal pork wiener,
Or huge, juicy, fat Hebrew National.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-02-09 23:18|| 2017-02-09 23:18|| Front Page Top

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