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May 21, 2009
GITMO Not Gone
It seems that the Senate is finally holding the line on spending. There will be no money for a GITMO shutdown. WASHINGTON (AP) - In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration the millions it sought to close the prison.How about that? 90 to 6 in a Senate with 60 Democrat members. Dear Leader seems to be losing control of his own Party. The question is: do the Democrats in Congress have any more appetite for the carbon tax commonly referred to as Cap and Trade? Or the total dismantling of the current health care system? It is one of the reasons Presidents like to get as much done as possible in their first 100 days in order to prevent the opposition to various proposals from coalescing. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 05.21.09 at 03:44 PM
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K, Yes, he merely needs to shop around for a suitably leftist circuit court (ala ACLU). Athena · May 24, 2009 01:25 AM Athena: It probably will end with a whimper just as you say. I don't believe anyone but the Justice Department and the prisoners will have standing for an appeal. So after any judge orders a release the AG can just decline to appeal upward. Holder can say there was no prospect of winning an appeal. Anyway, it is a political game. If O doesn't get support from Congress I think they stay out of the US. O has the winning hand if he dares play it. These people are held by the military and he can release any or all of them. No one can stop that. K · May 24, 2009 03:03 AM |
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Seeking funding to close Guantanamo - actually the prison portion - is complete nonsense, nothing more than a political dodge.
Obama simply seeks to avoid the consequences of his own words.
O can already order our military to send the prisoners to a military base in the US immediately. And guard them there. And it would be done.
That is what being Commander In Chief means.
There are two issues regarding these captives. First, are the prisoners being mistreated at GITMO. If they are, then stop doing that.
Again, O can order that today, no added permission is needed.
The second issue is how to handle trials, release, and/or rendition.
Both Congress and the courts, and now even Obama, agree that military trials are legal. Therefore GITMO is as good a place as any to conduct them. And if military trials are legal it follows that releasing prisoners must also be legal.
We know exactly why Obama wants them on US soil. He wants them released and hopes the courts will do that so no one will blame him.