Tag: Guantanamo
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On National Security, Obama Eventually Tends to Get it Right
War is different from crime-fighting. Prisoners of war logically should be treated differently from people accused of crimes. No battlefield reading of Miranda rights while the gunfire continues. No presumption of innocence, no standard of “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” President Obama, to his credit, recognized this reality again yesterday in signing an executive order […]
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How is the KSM Trial Like a Garbage Barge?
I envision the planned KSM trial now traipsing from one venue to another, turned away at every stop. It would be poetic justice if KSM and his fellow terrorists, like the wandering garbage barge, end up right back where they started — in this case, Guantanamo.
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Oh, That Nigerian Terrorist… Oopsie-Doopsie!
So the latest terrorist is being interrogated, but why should we believe anything he says? His pants literally were on fire! We can laugh because the terrorist botched the job, but it could have been very unfunny. And while I’ve always been skeptical of the idea that intelligence agencies “should have known†about 9/11 in […]
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Gitmo, Politics and Unintended Consequences
The good people of Thomson, Illinois, are eager for the jobs that would be created if the Obama administration moves some of the prisoners held at Guantanamo to the Thomson Correctional Center. Ironically, the detainees themselves seem to want to stay put in Gitmo, where they get ample exercise under the Caribbean sun.
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Politics Outweighs Principle in Ordering a Civilian Trial for KSM
It certainly can’t be understood as a principled decision. The administration intends to continue on the path of holding military commissions for other captured jihadists. I know of no way to articulate a principled reason for bringing some but not all terrorists into the criminal justice system.
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87 More Days Until Obama Breaks His Guantanamo Pledge
This week brings further reminders of why breaking that pledge will be the better part of valor. Many of the Gitmo detainees are Very Bad People, and there’s no good option for relocating them.
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Obama’s National Security Policy Looks Like Bush’s Third Term. Thank Goodness.
Krauthammer today: The genius of democracy is that the rotation of power forces the opposition to come to its senses when it takes over. When the new guys, brought to power by popular will, then adopt the policies of the old guys, a national consensus is forged and a new legitimacy established. Exactly right. I […]
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On January 23, 2010, There Will Still Be Detainees at Guantanamo
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M – Th 11p / 10c Guantanamo Baywatch – The Final Season thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Economic Crisis Political Humor Jon Stewart is an openly partisan Democrat, and sometimes I find that annoying. But he also is a really, really funny man. And to his credit, he doesn’t […]
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Honeymoon-Over Watch: Obama Treasury Secretary Draws Scrutiny on Taxes
Joe owed a hell of a lot less tax than Timothy Geithner. (Photo: Jae C. Hong / AP) (Instalanche! Welcome Instapundit readers, and readers from TigerHawk and Living al Dente.) There’s already plenty of opposition to Obama in the right-wing fever swamps of the Internets, of course. (I would link that sentence to Ann Coulter’s […]
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Obama Silver Lining Watch (Gitmo Edition)
“The single best thing about the election of Obama may be that we now have a chance to view the terror threat without the distorting lens of Bush hatred.” So says Jack Goldsmith, a former assistant attorney general in the Bush Administration, as quoted in a William McGurn column in today’s WSJ. The topic of […]