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2009-01-22 | |||||||||||
President Barack Obama began overhauling U.S. treatment of terror suspects Thursday, signing orders to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, shut down secret overseas CIA prisons, review military war crimes trials and ban the harshest interrogation methods. With his action, Obama started changing how the United States prosecutes and questions al-Qaida, Taliban or other foreign fighters who pose a threat to Americans -- and overhauling America's image abroad, battered by accusations of the use of torture and the indefinite detention of suspects at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba.
_Created a task force to recommend policies on handling terror suspects who are detained in the future. Specifically, the group would look at where those detainees should be housed since Guantanamo is closing.
A task force will study whether other interrogation guidelines -- beyond what's spelled out in the Army manual -- are necessary for intelligence professionals in dealing with terror suspects. But an Obama administration official said that provision should not be considered a loophole that will allow controversial "enhanced interrogation techniques" to be re-introduced. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to speak candidly about the administration's thinking.
"We intend to win this fight. We're going to win it on our terms," Obama said as he signed three executive orders and a presidential directive. The administration official said Obama's government will not transfer detainees to countries that will mistreat them, including their own home country.
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Posted by:ed |
#9 Gerald Warner: This will end in tears. The Obama hysteria is not merely embarrassing to witness, it is itself contributory to the scale of the disaster that is coming. What we are experiencing, in the deepening days of a global depression, is the desperate suspension of disbelief by people of intelligence - la trahison des clercs - in a pathetic effort to hypnotise themselves into the delusion that it will be all right on the night. It will not be all right. |
Posted by: William Marcy Tweed 2009-01-22 22:44 |
#8 Uncles Fidel + RAUL reportedly desire to see GITMO THE BASE closed and its land returned to Cuba, not just the DC??? BLAGO is going all out to set up for a OWG Free/Spec Econ Zone in the Midwest invol Ilinios, Detroit, + Canucks ["GREAT LAKES ZONE"], weirdly and mysteriously alongst the most likely routes for the SSSSSSSHHHHHHHHH TEXAS SUPER-HIGHWAY + NORTH AMER UNION. GITMO > CUBA'S FREE/SPEC ECON ZONE??? |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-01-22 20:23 |
#7 He's good on symbolic acts. Unfortunately, the other side [regardless of how nice-nice you think you can play and gain reciprocity], is even more into dramatic non-talk symbolism that the sycophants in the MSM can't hide. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-01-22 20:21 |
#6 So Obama signs a symbolic order to close GITMO. But when asked about an actual plan on how to do it he says…Don’t worry…I’m going to create a “Task Force” to figure that out. He then signs yet another symbolic order stating that all terrorist interrogations will be conducted strictly by Army Field Manual standards. But the Intelligence community tells him it’s a horrible idea and he risks a revolt in his first week in office. Hey stay cool spooky dudes…he’s going to create a “Study” of more aggressive interrogation methods that could be added later. Godspeed Uncle Leon…Godspeed! |
Posted by: DepotGuy 2009-01-22 19:19 |
#5 I just heard a radio news item that says he also signed an Executive Order outlawing torture and "other harsh methods of interrogation"... oh, good. I hope everyone remembers this when people die in an attack that could have been prevented. |
Posted by: Blinky Crusoger9464 2009-01-22 19:16 |
#4 And voting 'present' is not an option. Yes, we can. And he did. This is just kicking the can down the road for a year. All he has done is appease his more virulent supporters with lip service and kick the can down the road a year. In a year there will be other, more pressing crises. Barry will find out who's really in there and why. No one, or none of his supporters, will remember Gitmo, because it will be an inconvenient truth, flushed down the memory hole. And he'll need all the cells in Gitmo to hold the prisoners we take in our retreat from Afghanistan so that we have somebody to trade, at least in his mind, for the POWs. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-01-22 18:53 |
#3 "overhauling America's image abroad, battered by accusations of the use of torture and the indefinite detention of suspects at the Guantanamo prison in Cuba" America's image abroad never suffered because of accusations of torture, because those "abroad" nations don't give a rat's ass about torture. Most of them use torture routinely. The Euro's too - their secret services use torture but you'll never read about it anywhere. Our image didn't suffer, the Euro's, Muzzies, assorted thug regimes, and the NYT chose to portray that as being the case as a method of propagandizing against the Bush administration, and many of their propagandized masses followed suit. |
Posted by: Cynicism Inc 2009-01-22 17:56 |
#2 However, a Capitol Hill aide says that the administration also is planning a study of more aggressive interrogation methods that could be added to the Army manual... Maybe we'll make them watch that "I Pledge" video... |
Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-22 17:04 |
#1 THEN: Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago: "Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees" "Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times" "Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft" Annnnnnnnnd....... Headlines Today: "Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only ..... $15 0 million" "Obama Spends $15 0 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party" " To Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate" "Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration" (after their bail out) |
Posted by: Besoeker 2009-01-22 16:35 |