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| 2011-07-08 |
Gabriel Malor @ AoSHQ writes about the latest twist in the handling of detainees by the administration, as told in This Story at the Washington Post.A Somali militant linked to Al Qaeda was held and interrogated for two months on a U.S. Navy ship -- the first publicly known example of the Obama administration secretly detaining a new terrorism suspect outside the criminal justice system.After some comments about the hypocrisy, he concludes Lemme see if I've got this right. The President acknowledges that we have to interrogate these guys. He's admitted that, finally. But he cannot send terrorists to U.S. detention sites on our allies' territory because he railed against that when Bush 43 did it. He cannot send terrorists to the major detention facility created for that purpose on territory we control because he similarly railed against that at a time when he had no real responsibilities and despite the fact that he has now conceded that it will remain in operation indefinitely. He cannot send them straight to the United States because then we couldn't interrogate them and he has surrendered to the fact that we need to interrogate them. Solution: avoid this entire mess of his own creation by secretly detaining terrorists on naval vessels and as far as international (or domestic law) goes just fugedaboudit. Too. Much. Trouble. Presidentin'. Is. Hard. Eventually, though, the administration turned this detainee over to the FBI, which threw out a lot of the information gathered as tainted: ...he CIA literally won't touch terrorist interrogations with a ten foot pole. Not even "humane" interrogations. And that's a direct result of Obama's and AG Holder's witchhunt. (See this must-read column on that issue.) At the end of these interrogations, Warsame was Mirandized and then turned over to the FBI, which reportedly built its own independent and "untainted" case against him. Warsame will be tried in New York City for aiding Al Qaeda, assuming he doesn't take a plea deal first. I wonder if there are any misdemeanor terrorism charges available for plea-bargaining with. |
| Posted by:Thing From Snowy Mountain |
| #6 Barbara, IIRC, that's what the Geneva Convention says about illegal combatants. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2011-07-08 19:27 |
| #5 "Warsome should have been Fixed. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-08 17:39 |
| #4 Presidentin'. Couldn't stand it anymore. Had to fix it. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-07-08 15:55 |
| #3 Stupid imbeciles unlawfully detained him for two weeks and then Mirandized him? We currently have the most incompetent legal system in the history of the US. The DOJ is corrupt as hell and does not understand the law. It's only purpose is political wrangling and contorting the law. Warsome should have been immediately shipped to GTMO as an enemy combatant. Now you will have an obama show drial in NY city, a circus, a mockery of our Justice system, and the guy will probably walk scott free. I have never, in my life, ever seen anything more unprofessional than this administration. Stupid idiots. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-07-08 14:07 |
| #2 Prison hulks, we need some. |
| Posted by: S 2011-07-08 11:40 |
| #1 Well, what do you expect when you throw away a nation of laws for a nation of charismatic leaders who have no need for laws except to force their opponents to live by. One set of rules for me, another set of rules for thee. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-08 10:51 |