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2009-01-25 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Steve White 2009-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 It seems President Obama doesn't really want to close the Guantanamo facility, he just wants to be seen to be in the process of closing it. But then, the original examinations were to determine which of the prisoners could safely be released, and quite a few had been over the years.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2009-01-25 08:27|| 2009-01-25 08:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Too bad "W" could not have signed EO intent document like this prior to his departure.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-01-25 08:52|| 2009-01-25 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The sources seem credible, yet I find it difficult to believe that there is that much "disarray" in the files of at least the principal bad guys. Or those whose cases have been brought/or close to the military commission stage. And the combatant status reviews were based on what, just some chit-chat between the govt. and a military judge? No materials were assembled for those?

Puzzling.

While I always racked it up to dealing with the outrageous and constitution-shredding malfeasance of the SCOTUS in the their ridiculous bait-and-switch antics, the intolerable delays in getting the commissions ball rolling down there might have had other elements, perhaps?

Posted by Verlaine 2009-01-25 13:11|| 2009-01-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#4 One basic rule of handling very sensitive information with references to sources and human intell on the ground is to compartmentalize it.
Break it into pieces and keep the pieces in separate places. The only repository of everything is in the case manager's head.

Seems that some of the info on these little darlings at Gitmo is extremely sensitive with lots of direct attribution to sources.

I think Obama will be very wise to find a way to stall the closing of Gitmo for a long time. Especially given the rate at which the "innocent" return to their neferious ways in AQ.

Posted by James Carville 2009-01-25 13:55|| 2009-01-25 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 My thought too, James. There's way too much about sensitive sources and methods behind the capture of some of these who've been kept despite the other releases.

Posted by lotp 2009-01-25 14:08|| 2009-01-25 14:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Close Gitmo tomorrow. Return all the detainees to their home countries within 24 hours. Not a problem. Fly over at 40,000' and drop them out.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2009-01-25 16:05|| 2009-01-25 16:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Ima sure that the Big O is finding out that rhetoric is cheap, but solutions are expensive. His executive order in working to close Gitmo is a bone to be thrown to his fellow leftist travelers, and the EU, and others.

Now, faced with the reality of some real hardcases who are intent upon our destruction, he will have to make the tough decisions to get us all through this minefield safely.

So he has a choice to do something incredibly stupid, which can seriously cost us in lives in the future, or he can quietly try to do the right thing and deal with these people, to minimize the threat that they present.

Watch the hands and not the mouth. It should be interesting, in a clinical sense.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-25 17:50|| 2009-01-25 17:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like Barack is off to a great start, on track to keep his word and restore some international credibility for the US

Posted by coffee 2009-01-25 18:53|| http://www.coffeerama.com]">[http://www.coffeerama.com] 2009-01-25 18:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Who gives a shit, ~~Kaffe~~ coffee?

Wake me up when the "international community" - most of whom are dictators, poseurs, and pissants - tries to institute some credibility with US. (Note I didn't way "restore" credibility - they've never had any. The only thing most of them are good at is whining while we do the heavy lifting.)

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-25 19:19|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2009-01-25 19:19|| Front Page Top

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